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<br />Greg E. Walcher <br />Executive Director <br />Division of Minerals and Geology <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Dear Mr. Walcher: <br />We are strongly opposed to the Rio Grande Cement plant proposed for <br />southern Pueblo county. Our opposition is based on many factors and we're <br />hoping this letter sheds some additional light on one important factor: <br />money. <br />Most pro-cement-plant arguments are based on increased tax revenues and <br />additions to the local work force. Those additional tax revenues from the <br />plant could be easily offset by the following: money needed to update and <br />continually upgrade road systems to handle increased cement-truck traffic; <br />money needed by auto-insurance companies to fix cracked windshields; <br />money needed to treat asthma and other respiratory health problems; money <br />needed to fight lawsuits brought about by this attack on your citizens' <br />health; money needed to purify water ruined by strip mining and cement <br />production; money needed to fight lawsuits from those injured on the <br />highways by flying rocks or large trucks; money needed to stimulate an <br />economy that suffers a severe cut in land values; money needed to fight <br />lawsuits brought about by a severe cut in land values; money needed by the <br />state to purchase additional water shares to replace the water a cement <br />factory ruins; money needed to fight environmental lawsuits brought against <br />the county; money needed to pay the pollution fines that Rio Grande already <br />admits to. <br />We don't want this cement company in Pueblo. We don't need this cement <br />company in Pueblo. We can't afford to have this cement company in Pueblo, <br />financially, in terms of our health, or in terms of our environment. <br />Sincerely, <br />Nick and udy Ienatsch