Laserfiche WebLink
<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Fischer: I really cannot. I think that, Mr. Chairman, the oil <br />companies have been niggardly with their willingness to discuss that <br />kind of thing with those of us who are on the ground locally. I imagine <br />they have had the same attitude with Mr. Sparks. Either they don't <br />know or they won't tell. They keep the data confidential. My conver- <br />sations with t1r. John Hutchins, formerly manager of the Colony and now <br />president of Cameron Engineers, was no return flow, but nothing on <br />recycling. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Well, ,just as one member of the board, I hope the oil <br />companies know that they won't be niggardly with this board. We will <br />have some opportunity to talk with them and get some input in, not only <br />staff, but the board itself, if we are going to consider the natural <br />resources. And I can tell you are just as anxious as J am. We will <br />need some input from them, and the confidentiality of the whole problem <br />doesn't impress me much. <br /> <br />~tt. Fischer: Mr. Chairman, it doesn't impress the Garfield county <br />commissioners very much either. We find that one company that has an <br />important water filing for a reservoir at the confluence of the forks <br />of Parachute Creek has been, I think. seriously and in part quite <br />rightly criticized by one member of the county commissioners of Garfield <br />county from the standpoint of the company's insistence on operating in <br />a vacuum. I personally worked for this company at one time. It is not, <br />as far as I can determine, an intentional thing. I think that this is <br />just the way the companies operate. I would hope that this board, and <br />I am going to encourage the River District Board. and the board of <br />county commissioners would encourage these companies to perhaps be <br />willing to change their philosophy enough to have the kind of local <br />rapport that is so necessary. I bring to your attention an example of <br />the testimony by the executive vice president of AMOCO Standard Oil of <br />Indiana, when he testified to Senator Haskell on January 19. Senator <br />Haskell said, "Are you going to have a local office?" "Yes, sir." <br />"Where will it be?" "Denver." And I submit to you, Mr. Chairman, that <br />is not good enough. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: I am not going to get in that part of it: If the board <br />agrees with me, I will take it upon myself to write a letter to all of <br />the oil companies, telling them that we will be meeting in the summer <br />and we would like to have an input in regard to their plans. We have <br />had stories of oil shale since I have been on the board and long before <br />I was on the board, and there ought to be some input that we can get. <br />Is there any objection on the part of the board members if I do that? <br />I like to write oil companies about their poor credit billing procedures, <br />and now I will trade my correspondence. <br /> <br />~23- <br />