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| Thanks for watching. | |
| The idea of putting this on the ballot came from intrusive new regulations being placed on rural parts of Colorado. | |
| Here's a clip from my interview with Commissioner Mike Freeman. | |
| You guys are looking at forming another state, North Colorado perhaps? | |
| It's a conversation that we've had with a number of other counties. | |
| There's a lot of issues that come into this as to the reasons why we're Why we're considering doing this, but we would be doing this along with other campaigns and it has nothing to do with whether we're home rule or statutory. | |
| What started this? | |
| Well, I think there's a number of things that started it. | |
| I think probably it's been coming even for several years, but the commissioners went to the governor and asked for if they could get a 30-day stay on the wells, on all these wells that have been shut down in the South Platte. | |
| To not turn them back on permanently, but turn them back on for 30 days to allow farmers to be able to save their crops. | |
| And they were turned down by that. | |
| And so that kind of started it. | |
| And then as we got into this legislative session, I think that it started probably with the gun laws that were passed. | |
| I think it went on from there with the, you know, the attack on oil and gas. | |
| And that's extremely important to what's going on in Weld County. | |
| And I think the thing that culminated it was Senate Bill 252, which was passed by the legislature | |
| and signed by the governor, which is an alternative energy bill. | |
| Ten counties met in the town of Akron, Colorado, to begin mapping the boundaries for the new | |
| state of North Colorado. | |
| I say 80% of the oil and gas revenue in the state of Colorado is coming out of northeastern | |
| Weld, Yuma County, and some of the other counties, Commissioner Sean Conway said. | |
| One of the immediate issues that would have to be addressed are the water rights between the newly formed state and Colorado. | |
| After all the local legalities are addressed, then the Colorado General Assembly and the U.S. | |
| Congress have to approve the secession. | |
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