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Natural Soda LLC briefs commissioners on global market, water rights and regulatory risks from proposed state primacy and emissions rules
Summary
Natural Soda presented an overview of its Meeker-area mining and processing operations, told commissioners the plant is one of the world's few producers of natural sodium bicarbonate and flagged potential regulatory risks if the state seeks primacy over underground-injection rules or tightens greenhouse-gas limits under GEM 2-type regulations.
Natural Soda LLC representatives briefed the Rio Blanco County Board of County Commissioners on April 8 about the company's mining and manufacturing operations in the Piceance/Piaos basin, its workforce and payroll, and potential regulatory threats that could affect production.
Moffat (plant) manager and staff described the company as a major producer of natural sodium bicarbonate — "the only producer of pure sodium bicarbonate in the world," the presentation said — supplying food, animal feed, cosmetics and other industries. Natural Soda said it operates an injection/recovery, closed-loop solution-mining process on leased federal and private subsurface rights and that company wells and surface…
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