Word: lamm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy companies and Washington policymakers are sold on shale, others are not. Colorado Governor Richard Lamm protests that any crash development program "could do irreparable damage to our water supply, to our communities, to our environment." State officials, local representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Sierra Club and similar groups are allied to stop or at least to stall shale development. Water, a precious resource in the tri-state region, is one of their greatest concerns. Conservationists claim that shale extraction could use from one to five barrels of water for each barrel of oil, but company officials maintain...
Utah Governor Scott Matheson, who chaired the conference, declared later: "The West is not as angry as it was a little while ago." Even Colorado's Richard Lamm, an early Carter critic, seemed mollified. Said Lamm of the President: "His words were very reassuring...
This lack of understanding can be seen in the decision to pump billions of dollars into the development of synthetic fuels. As Colorado's Democratic Governor Dick Lamm put it: "For us in the West the implications are almost unfathomable. Colorado has 80% of the nation's developable shale, vast amounts of coal and a great deal of uranium. Now we are being subjected to a crash program...
...ambitions of new leaders sometimes sink into Realpolitik. To the environmentalists' delight, Dick Lamm, Colorado's newly elected Governor, proclaimed in 1975: "I am going to drive a silver stake through the heart of Interstate 470"?a road that was to be the final link of a circumferential highway around Denver...
...Lamm soon found out about the clout of the state highway commission, the citizens' associations, the building trades and local mayors looking for tax bases. What started as Lamm's crusading leadership shook down after almost two years into a political compromise: not an interstate, but a four-lane parkway, with limited interchanges. Compromise has become an increasing aspect of modern leadership...