County asks VP, first lady to help stop drilling (AP) — Pitkin County officials plan to ask Vice President Joe Biden and first lady Michelle Obama for help in preventing a Texas energy company from drilling natural gas wells in western Colorado's Thompson Divide area. Houston-based SG Interests Inc. wants more time to develop natural gas wells in the Thompson Divide, which includes 346 square miles of federal land running from the Sunlight Ski Area to McClure Pass, crossing Pitkin, Gunnison, Garfield, Mesa and Delta counties. Robbie Guinn, vice president of SG Interests, wrote in a ... Read More