Upcoming election is serious business
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Editor,
Why does Montana lag behind North Dakota and Wyoming in development and use of our abundant natural resources? They do not suffer the extent of legal impediments inflicted upon Montanans by a small percentage of our population consisting of highly financed radical eccentrics. To regain our economy, we must restore industries dependent upon our natural resources. One of the most serious recent EPA threats is the banning of the fracking procedure in drilling. Coal-fired power generation is threatened for closure under pretense of air pollution due to unproven global warming hypothesis and theory. Wind energy fraught with numerous production complications is economically impractical, requiring federal financing impossible to recover in the lifetime of the equipment without drastic price increases. Economical renewable hydropower, unique to this region, is endangered by ongoing environmentalist threats of dam removal. Dead and dying forests loaded with bio-fuels are burning on the mountain sides, polluting air and water, as opposed to clean burning biomass co-generation plants.
In all cases, abused taxpayers pay for the bad science and federal funding of impractical energy generation as dictated by the EPA and DEQ. No new power generation plants have been built in over 30 years; transmission systems are outdated and maxed out. Schemes have been designed to kill job-producing business and industry while driving citizens to unbearably high living costs. Ever-increasing excessive federal restrictions on energy production in a country seriously in debt, is driving us to inevitable collapse. We are even losing our rural lands through conservation easements.
We must take seriously the rhetoric of candidates currently campaigning for office. We need assurance they recognize the seriousness of the issues and are capable of providing corrective measures complete with the skills, motivation and determination to perform effectively in office. If no reference is made to state’s rights, sovereignty, nullification or the coordination process in inter-governmental policy making, it is questionable if a candidate has the insight essential for today’s elected office. It is critical that we elect dedicated officials capable of doing the job essential to preserving this country and our Constitution. We owe it to ourselves and our own descendants to take this election very seriously.
Clarice Ryan
Bigfork
