Energy and Climate
Drilling the Land of the Ancients
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Oil and gas drilling on state lands within view of the Chaco Canyon visitor’s center continues to be a significant threat, according to the the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance.
Energy and Climate
Local doctor seeks volunteers who live near gas wells for new study
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Local doctor seeks volunteers who live near gas wells to submit bodily fluids for testing as part of new study.
Energy and Climate
BLM officials hear pleas to void oil and gas leases
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There are 25 leases in the Thompson Divide area. Seven are held by Ursa Resources and 18 are held by SG Interests.
Energy and Climate
A sense of green urgency at Park City’s Powdr Corp.
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Powdr’s culture of environmental stewardship has helped the company reduce its carbon footprint by nearly 60 percent in roughly seven years.
Energy and Climate
A sprawling Vail Resorts works to reduce its carbon footprint
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Vail Resorts is doing aggressive work on the ground to reduce its energy consumption but is generally soft-spoken about global warming and the company’s role, if any, in fighting it.
Energy and Climate
How Aspen Skiing Co. became a power company
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The strange, improbable deal united vastly different partners — one that mines black coal and another that sells holidays on white snow. The partners come from opposite ends of America’s political divide, but they agree it’s good to put an otherwise wasted resource to use.
Aspen History
Aspen climate activists take pitch to DC
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Working to turn the heat up, and down, in DC.
Energy and Climate
Pushing the reset button on city’s Canary Initiative
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It’s been one month since Ashley Perl became the new director of the city of Aspen’s Canary Initiative, and she plans to breathe new life into the little yellow bird. From its inception in 2005, the program has aimed to reduce the Aspen community’s carbon footprint. The Canary name likens Aspen’s role as a mountain town in an age of climate change to the canary in the mineshaft, warning miners of danger. Perl, a five-year veteran of the city’s environmental health and sustainability department (where the Canary office is now located), plans to broaden the Canary mission from reducing greenhouse gas emissions to also preparing the city and the region for the realities of climate change. The 30-year-old Perl refers to this new, related mission as “resiliency planning” or “preparedness planning.”
“We’ll continue to reduce greenhouse gases but we also need to realize that we need to prepare for a different future because of greenhouse gases,” Perl said.
Energy and Climate
State on top of Parachute hydrocarbon plume incident, says COGCC director
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The director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission sought to reassure Pitkin County commissioners on Wednesday that appropriate actions were being taken to contain, and find the source of, a mysterious plume of hydrocarbons threatening Parachute Creek.
Energy and Climate
Gas company has a bull’s-eye on one PitCo well
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Of the pack of natural gas wells that SG Interests wants to drill in Pitkin County, there is one lead dog, and that’s well 8-89-31 #1. And if 8-89-31 #1 keeps its lead status, it would be the first gas well drilled and fracked in Pitkin County in decades.