Advocacy Coalition of Telluride ‘Tables’ at Phish Concert
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TELLURIDE – The Advocacy Coalition of Telluride has been selected to host a table at the August 9-10 Phish concerts, in Telluride Town Park.
ACT organizer Cindy McFadden described the selection. “We’re just a group of volunteer citizens,” she said, concerned about the possible environmental effects from the proposed Paradox Valley uranium mining and the Piñon Ridge uranium mill.
Three conservation groups and two government agencies have filed statements of opposition to the water right permit applications for what would be the nation’s first uranium mill in nearly three decades; Telluride-based Sheep Mountain Alliance made one filing in opposition to the permit applications, while Red Rock Forests and Living Rivers, both based in Moab, Utah, together filed opposition statements as well.
This month, the mayors of Telluride and Ophir signed letters opposing the project, as well. “I just contacted Phish headquarters,” said McFadden, “and asked if we could ‘table’ at the concert.” She explained that Phish regularly “tables” concerts, selling “T-shirts and memorabilia and auction items and signed guitars” at the tables, and selecting one area nonprofit to man the tables and receive the proceeds.
A Pre-Phish Anti-Radiation Party, featuring free beer and pizza, raffle prizes, music and films, takes place Monday, Aug. 2, at the Bubble Lounge, co-hosted by the Bubble Lounge and Brown Dog Pizza.
We dont see em, period. We, the 2200 of us who live here, cause more man made global warming than we can even calculate. Which is good, because we have no intention of doing any calculating on account we are all scurrying around gettin ready for Phish...and the 20,000 people who will get here by car and stink up the place.
But first, we have the Jazz people..now these people are upscale, flying first class and then coming in jeeps and humvees...this is high class global warming of the first order.
Nevertheless, between Friday am and next Wednesday am we will have damn near 30,000 people enjoying themselves to the fullest at our profit. Using diesel powered jet engines, gasoline powered cars and plenty of electricity fired by coal just over the line in Arizona...
We already put up the signs about our wind powered gondola...course none of us think that there is anywhere enough wind to power that thing 24 hours a day 300 days a year but we aint admittting nothing...
Bout them 30 or 40 thousand tourists coming here over 5 days..we dont look at the global warming that they make since it is what keeps us from getting our hands dirty with regular peasant work.
This is only being said incognito cuz we have no intention of ever acknowledging that we here in Telluride are not only part of the problem but the problem!
We intend to keep you peasants over in the west end hungry and lean-keep looking for work on account that we dont want any of that there dust coming over here in the wind...we ignore the fact that we have a pile of uranium laden tailing on both the east and west end of town...betcha didnt know that didya? Hell, about 6 miles from here we suckered the Feds into cleaning up some regular old uranium mud there by the main highway coming into town..almost done..2mm dollars in Fed money...(like Frank Bell said, our long gone ignorant city manager, "thats free money!)
Nope, do as we say and we will let you be impoverished.
In the meantime, to feel superior and better, we do ignorant things like ban plastic bags, re-locate prairie dogs, set up Phish tables to rabble rouse the ignorant.
Like our mayor. Dumb as a brick and cant see the forest for the trees...cant see how we are the problem; gets all worked up and sends a letter off to the powers that be-no uranium down valley as he sits no more than 500 yards from a stadium sized pile of it...his entire existence, his electric ski lifts are powered by coal burning power plants that blacken the ski, soil the snow and raise the earth's temperature...
Ok, off for some pilates, some organic food and then to the Bean to prattle about how intellectually superior we is out here in Tride.