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Category: Environment

Aspen Journalism’s “Connie Harvey Environment Desk” is named in honor of the longtime Aspen environmentalist.

Posted inEnvironment

Justice Dept. investigating power play on local gas pipelines

by Tim Mutrie October 14, 2012February 19, 2021

Both antitrust inquiries arose from a snarl of bad blood, clashing, and lawsuits between shifting factions of gas operators competing for stakes — territory, infrastructure and loyalties among them — in the expanding Ragged Mountain and Thompson Divide areas in the early and mid-2000s.

Posted inEnvironment, Land Use, Wealth and Property

Fuel sales could boost airport rent revenues

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith September 4, 2012February 19, 2021

ASPEN – Pitkin County could receive at least $3 million in annual rent from a proposed new private jet center—a sum that is 16 times more than what the current fixed-base operator pays at Sardy Field.

Posted inEnvironment

Biomass in Germany and in Austria … and in Colorado?

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith September 30, 2011February 19, 2021

On Wednesday, Sept. 28 the Roaring Fork Biomass Consortium hosted a regional biomass summit at Carbondale town hall. The day included a number of presentations on the feasibility of biomass in the Roaring Fork River valley region. At the biomass summit, Aspen Journalism presented an audio slideshow with photos and audio captured during an educational […]

Posted inEnvironment

Should Colorado move from beetle-kill to biomass?

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith September 3, 2011February 19, 2021

Below is the transcript for the radio story that is posted above and was produced in collaboration with KDNK public radio in Carbondale:

Posted inEnvironment

Al Gore calls "bullshit" on climate propaganda

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith August 5, 2011February 19, 2021

Former Vice President Al Gore spoke Thursday at a communications and society seminar at the Aspen Institute (FOCAS). He primarily addressed the subject of how citizens can exercise their democratic duties in the networked world, although he also gave a long overview of media and communications history. Gore spoke off-the-cuff for about an hour and […]

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Stormwater mismanagement in the gas fields

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith April 12, 2011February 22, 2021

The state’s Water Quality Control Division says a division of Williams natural gas company failed to take measures at a gas field construction site to keep dirt and mud from running down steep hills into a tributary of Parachute Creek, which flows into the Colorado River in Parachute. On Nov. 1, 2010, state inspectors witnessed […]

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Two other gas field stormwater violations

Brent Gardner-Smith by Brent Gardner-Smith April 12, 2011February 22, 2021

Williams is not alone when it comes to failing inspections at construction sites in Garfield County’s gas fields. The Petroleum Development Company received two stormwater permits, one in 2002 and one in 2007, for construction of an access road for oil and gas exploration on 56 acres about 10 miles north of Parachute. Under the […]

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