Hundreds rally against climate legislation

Aug 25 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Bill Jackson Greeley Tribune, Colo.

Between 750 and 1,000 people let it be known Tuesday they want nothing to do with climate change legislation that has been passed by the U.S. House and is headed for the Senate.

The so-called cap and trade legislation would put a cap on greenhouse gas emissions, but Steve Wells, who ranches east of Greeley, called the legislation "a disaster," and predicted it will lead to the destruction of not only the oil and gas economy in Weld County, but the economy of the country.

The rally, one of 22 planned for across the country while Congress is in recess, was partially put together by the American Petroleum Institute, which opposes the climate bill. The Energy Citizen Rally received opposition from several environmental groups, such as Greenpeace and the National Resources Defense Council, who charged the "phony" events were planned and staged by big oil concerns.

And while the industry had a large presence at Tuesday's event at the Exhibition Building in Island Grove Regional Park -- it funded bright yellow T shirts that were handed out opposing the climate change legislation -- it was people like Wells and Gege Ellzey, a third generation dairy farmer from Galeton, who explained what the legislation meant to them.

Ellzey, whose family milks 200 cows and farms 500 acres near Galeton, said that even the Environmental Protection Agency has said that if the legislation is passed "it will have no or little impact on global climate," but, she added, it will "leave farmers with a reduced source of energy or energy too expensive to afford."

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