{"id":18374,"date":"2025-07-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-commissioners-decide-our-future\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:39:08","slug":"montezuma-county-commissioners-decide-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-commissioners-decide-our-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma County Commissioners decide our future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Montezuma County Comprehensive Land Use Plan is being revised regarding alternate energy sources including solar farms and nuclear energy. It\u2019s time for a decision about the future on Thursday, July 24.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people support public lands for different purposes. But you can\u2019t mix mining with grazing, recreation, or even agriculture because mining pollutes air, land and water.<\/p>\n<p>I have spoken to county commissioners and state politicians about uranium mining and increased cancer risk from radon and tailings storage. I gave them the facts, and they must prefer short term mining gain over long term community health and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we have a moratorium on solar farms and public nuclear energy meetings. What they don\u2019t care to see makes for a grim future. So what kind of a future do you want for your children and grandchildren?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m proposing a Colorado Green Amendment instead. We need clean air, water, and healthy lands as our rights in the Colorado Constitution. Let\u2019s let them know that we want a brighter future and see who steps up to lead us with a Colorado Green Amendment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Jane Singer <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-1a09a516960441f7c7abf09b7b9abd81\">Dolores<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montezuma County Comprehensive Land Use Plan is being revised regarding alternate energy sources including solar farms and nuclear energy. It\u2019s time for a decision about the future on Thursday, July 24. A lot of people support public lands for different purposes. But you can\u2019t mix mining with grazing, recreation, or even agriculture because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-18374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20553,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18374\/revisions\/20553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18374"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=18374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}