Wasted money
The American economist Art Laffer is credited with coining the metaphor: “In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve.” Accordingly. the people of Garfield County are getting the government they deserve in the three longtime incumbent Republican Garfield County Commissioners: Mike Samson. John Martin and Tom Jankovsky, and their “legacy inertia” toward developing new innovation technology policies that will reinvigorate the west Garfield County natural gas industry.
A glaring example is their refusal to accept the demise of the “Second Wave” natural gas industry economic model and their continuing denial of the megatrend toward zero carbon emissions.
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Rusty Frishmuth shows off an air compressor powering controllers at an oil field off Hwy. 34 east of Greeley, Colo., on Feb. 24, 2021. Controllers at this facility are powered by compressed air.
Rusty Frishmuth opened a metal equipment cabinet in an oil field east of Greeley and waited for the sound.
A few minutes later, a sharp
woosh blew from inside. It was the sound of a pneumatic controller in action.
“Incredibly exciting, right?” joked Frishmuth.
As the director of environmental health and safety for HighPoint Resources, which drills across the Denver-Julesburg Basin, he’s used to hearing these little devices throughout the day.
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