by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The Fifth Amendment is an essential part of the Bill of Rights, ensuring, “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” Sometimes private property stands in the way of public progress, such as when highways are built. The public good [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel When President Kennedy explained the goal of sending a man to the moon, he said the nation chose to do such things “not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel One of the most popular speakers at Club 20 in the 1990s was a Montana logger named Bruce Vincent, founder of a PR firm called Environomics, Inc. He was, and is, one of the country’s most inspiring and entertaining speakers on natural resources and [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously advised, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that [is] it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” He was talking about the financial [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Wolves yelp, bark and howl at night to commmunicate, establish territories, and even to show affection. They do not actually howl at the moon, although that romanticized vision was cited by many voters who thought returning wolves to Colorado would somehow enhance their lives. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A couple of years ago I mentioned a report called, “Beyond Carbon-Free: A Framework for Purpose-Led Renewable Energy Procurement and Development.” It was published by an energy company in Seattle, together with the Nature Conservancy and the National Audubon Society. It suggested that the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel There is a line in “The Music Man,” just after Harold Hill steps off the train, when he asks a local man on the street, “What do you folks do around here for excitement?” The stranger responds curtly, “Mind our business.” [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Last week we mentioned the Biden administration’s “Investing in America Agenda,” and how the Interior Department is spending $44 million of its windfall share of the recent massive spending bills. It is ironic, to say the most, to call government spending [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In the 1980s Gunnison philanthropist Butch Clark offered a novel way to end the age-old West Slope-East Slope water battles. He suggested that Denver could use the Colorado River’s remaining unallocated water by building a pipeline from the Utah line to [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A couple of weeks ago a letter to the editor appeared in this paper and six others around the state, asserting that “Removing trees from Colorado forests will not prevent wildfires from burning.” Really? As if removing all the wood from [...]
