Fremont County Independent Outreach Committee

If Only They Had Listened

To the editor:

For years, Cotter and the Colorado Department of Health and Environment said there was no contamination getting to the Lincoln Park community. For fewer years, CDPHE said it was there, but it was significant. Now, it is there and seems to have stagnated.

It is there and has been, radiating the ne...

To the editor:

CCAT, having lost on almost every point, now turns to radon flux as their whipping boy

Flux is a rate function; it does not represent steady state concentrations of dangerous chemicals to which we are exposed Radon, in the end produces in Colorado an air concentration of around 200 mrems. However, Colorado, contrary to many states, does not...

Cotter denies it — their typical spin method — but with contamination 1,000 times the norm, and the contaminated Schwartzwalder Mine nearby, what other conclusion could be drawn? They've used the same "denial" spin about golf course contamination in Canon City coming from natural uranium. The public doesn't know about other issues, such as: high thorium ...

To the editor:

There appear to be some who feel they can determine the laws of science and how the world uses them; in a sense set technological progress. Such cannot be done anywhere. Advances in what we know and can do will always proceed, generally to the common good. It is not the science that does damage, it is those who choose to ignore it or use it unwise...

To the editor:

Approximately two-thirds of the 99 Cotter violations were for endangering their employees including: Failure to determine dose to embryo; Failure to document exposure to pregnant employee – second offense in a year; Employee hospitalized for chemical burns because three areas had inoperable emergency safety showers.

Cotte...

To the editor:

The uranium industry had recent comments regarding HB-1348, the Uranium Processing Accountability Act, requiring contamination clean-up before applying to continue operations, in addition to other requirements.

Lobbyists for the Colorado Mining Association argued “if you can’t accept new material for processing, you can’t ...

Letters to the Editor, Carol Dunn, CCAT Co-Chair

Letters to the Editor, Randy Whicker, Cañon City, CO

Letters To The Editor, Kay Hawklee, Cañon City, CO

Letters To The Editor, Kay Denniston, Cañon City, CO