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Show Summary – Western Skies #116– May 25, 2006
SENATE IMMIGRATION VOTE
The Senate passes an immigration reform bill. One of Colorado's senators
supported it, the other didn't, they tell us why. [LISTEN]
IMMIGRATION ANALYSIS
Congress can make all the rules it wants on immigration policy, but little
is likely to change until Mexico's economy improves. That's the opinion
of University of Colorado Law School Professor Clare Huntington. [LISTEN]
VOTING MACHINES
Do Colorado's new voting machines violate the state constitution? The Secretary
of State held a hearing on that question Wednesday, because a citizen formally
complained. But Bente Birkland reports that the people, the new machines
are intended to help, like them. [LISTEN]
CONTROVERSIAL GAS DRILLING STUDY
Seven energy companies want to drill on 1.5 million acres in northwestern
Colorado. The agency regulating them says it's OK for the companies to pick
the company that does the environmental analysis for the project. The Wilderness
Society cries foul. [LISTEN]
SENATE COMMITTEE TO HOLD FIELD HEARING ON OIL
SHALE IN COLORADO
The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold a field
hearing in Colorado next Thursday to talk about oil shale development. [LISTEN]
ENERGY COMPANY EXECUTIVE SAYS NOT TO WORRY ABOUT
DRILLING NEAR NUCLEAR TEST SITE
In 1969 the Nixon administration detonated an underground nuclear explosion
in western Colorado. The idea was to expedite production of natural gas.
The project was abandoned when the gas that came up was highly radioactive.
We hear from a Denver energy executive whose company wants to drill new
gas wells close to the test site. [LISTEN]
COMMENTARY: EVA SYROV
You don't have to have lived in Colorado Springs very long to see the city
grow - and grow, and grow some more. Eva Syrovy has been here 22 years,
and made her peace with t
he way the city has continued to expand. [LISTEN]
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