Last week, I noticed a new item about the opening of a Koch Industries fertilizer plant in Enid, Oklahoma. It is the company’s largest investment ever, with a price tag of $1.3 billion. The company employs more than 60,000 people nationwide and is a leader in safety and sustainability. This is the type of development we should be working to attract to Colorado, not just corporate HQs and white-collar jobs. Big projects, like the Koch Industries plant, would help us squeeze even more economic value out of every barrel of oil and every cubic foot of natural gas that we produce. It also would be a boon for local farmers.

Colorado has the energy, the talent, the transportation network and the environment to host this kind of development. I, for one, hope that here in Colorado we can focus on ways to continue to expand and grow our energy industry to help create jobs and boost similar industries like agriculture and transportation.

Brad Milligin

Lewis