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David Ludlam: Community support

To the editor:

For West Slope residents, this week brought excitement and anticipation building up to a well-earned holiday weekend.

The holiday brings excitement for the West Slope Colorado Oil & Gas Association, too, but for a different reason.



As reported, this week local governments and schools received checks for over $54 million dollars from the energy sectors. In fact, Moffat County and its municipalities alone inked over $3.3 million from natural gas, oil and coal. Not a bad way to wind down the summer season.

As a result, county roads will be smoother, city parks will be greener and schools more effective in creating the next generation of job creators for our communities.



Throughout the year, our organization’s mission is to highlight the jobs we create, emphasize the clean energy we produce and spotlight the billions of dollars invested locally each year by our member companies.

But seldom are we more proud than when local governments receive direct cash resulting from energy activity. For most of us, numbers in the billions are hard to conceptualize. But, it is true the natural gas and oil industry provides over $24 billion to Colorado’s economy each year.

The monies received this week were just a small fraction of that total economic contribution.

As local governments and schools deposit these dollars into their bank accounts, the 6,000 local employees represented by our organization enjoy the holiday weekend that much more knowing the work they do in the energy business benefits and supports the local communities who support them, too.

David Ludlam

Executive director, The West Slope Colorado Oil & Gas Association

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