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• Permit No: M1988112
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Name: WATER COURT UPDATE
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STUDENTS PROTEST
the October issue from a phone interview
with one of the student organizers, and
Channel 4 News from Denver aired a live
spot on Friday the 14th from the Rito Seco
Park and aired a feature on the event the
next evening.
The protest events and subsequent news
coverage were deemed successful by the
participants. The participants learned many
things about the environmern and about the
struggle in San Luis. The media coverage of
the event reached a large audience of
sympathetic observers, who will inevitably
make known their opposition to the
destruction of Colorado's finest resources,
its natural beauty and unique rural cultures.
Viewers and readers of media coverage
learned that not only are trees and animals
being endangered but so too is the
livelihood of the people of San Luis. People
in Denver and elsewhere in the state learned
that the mining proposed by BMG will bring
grave danger to the cRizens of San Luis.
They learned that a way of life unique to the
San Luis Valley is being threatened by
BMG's operations.
People throughout Colorado will begin to
voice their outrage at corporations, such as
BMG, who value profit over the environment
and human life. Student protestors hope a1I
concerned citizens will make it known that
they will no longer tolerate this type of
operation to jeopardize our environment and
traditional livelihoods.
SAN LUIS PARTICIPATES IN
VALLEY-WIDE RECYCLING
The San Luis Valley Recycling Coop will
involve the six counties of the San Luis
Valley-Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Mineral,
Rio Grande, and Saguache--in a recycling
and processing business.
Initially, drop-off centers will be built in the
largest town in each county. Long-term
plans include adrop-off center in each town
in the valley, a buy-back center in
strategically-located towns in the valley
(Alamosa, Monte Vista, San Luis, Creede,
Saguache, Antonito, and Center), and a
processing plarn located in Alamosa.
For San Luis, this will mean a posttion for apart-
time person to run adrop-off cerner in town. People
would not be paid for recyclable products for the first
three months and then would be reimbursed
according to the weight and type of product, i.e.,
glass, paper, plastics, aluminum and tin cans.
Donors are sought for $200 to construct a large
storage bin. Containers (barrels) as well as scales
and transportation of products to Alamosa will be
financed by a state grant.
This project promises to tie of great benefit to our
community, not only because of what may evolve
into afull-time position, but because i[ will facilitate
the productive disposal of waste products that would
otherwise only be dumF~ed into our already
overflowing disposal site. f~rojects of this sort are
calculated to reduce garbage by 50 percent.
Some of the benefits dewed from recycling are
the opportunities which communities have to recycle
wastes into usable products produced by small
industries. Opportunities being investigated are:
--animal bedding for farmers;
--compost materials for Rahkra
Mushroom Farm, greenhouses,
gardeners, and farmers;
-insulation for construction;
--shredded tires for asphaR material,
rubber mats, retreaded tires;
--crushed glass for read pavement,
construction, glass manufacturing;
--yard wastes for livestock feed;
--many uses for recyr:led paper.
This community could profit greatly in many ways
from such a positive industry. For further information
call Maria Valdez, member of the Committee for
Environmental Soundness, at 672678.