Monday, June 10, 2013

Northern Colorado Counties want to form their own state

As a sign of just how divisive the recently ended Colorado legislative session has been, it may very well result in a literal division of the state. 
As many as eight counties composing the rural, oil and gas-rich northeast corner of the state are pursuing a plan to cut ties with a capital city they no longer feel represents their interests and come together as the 51st state in the country: North Colorado. 
“We’re actually going to pursue it,” said Weld County Commissioner Douglas Rademacher, a farmer whose jurisdiction is spearheading the effort. 
“Frankly, we’ve been ignored in northeastern Colorado now for the last, going on eight years with the current administration in Denver.” “Frankly, we see no option,” he said. “We are going to move forward.” 
Rademacher cited numerous examples of how Denver politicians are out of touch with rural Colorado, from passing tough new gun laws — “that gun legislation really pissed a lot of people off in Weld County,” he said — to trying to clamp down on companies that extract natural gas through fracking. 
But the final straw, he said, was Gov. John Hickenlooper’s signature on Wednesday of Senate Bill 252 requiring rural electrical cooperatives to double to 20 percent the amount of renewable energy in their portfolios by 2020.
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2 comments:

Jeremy Janson said...

They should call it something better than North Colorado. How about Fort Morgan? Or Overland, for the Overland Trail?

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