Local doctor seeks volunteers who live near gas wells to submit bodily fluids for testing as part of new study.
Category: Environment
Aspen Journalism’s “Connie Harvey Environment Desk” is named in honor of the longtime Aspen environmentalist.
Posted inEnvironment, Land Use
BLM officials hear pleas to void oil and gas leases
There are 25 leases in the Thompson Divide area. Seven are held by Ursa Resources and 18 are held by SG Interests.
Posted inEnvironment, Skiing
A sense of green urgency at Park City’s Powdr Corp.
Powdr’s culture of environmental stewardship has helped the company reduce its carbon footprint by nearly 60 percent in roughly seven years.
Posted inEnvironment, Skiing
A sprawling Vail Resorts works to reduce its carbon footprint
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.
Posted inEnvironment, Skiing
How Aspen Skiing Co. became a power company
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.
Posted inEnvironment, Skiing
Aspen climate activists take pitch to DC
Working to turn the heat up, and down, in DC.
Posted inEnvironment
Pushing the reset button on city’s Canary Initiative
Breathing new life into an effort to fight climate change.
Posted inEnvironment, Land Use
State on top of Parachute hydrocarbon plume incident, says COGCC director
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.
Posted inEnvironment, Land Use
Gas company has a bull’s-eye on one PitCo well
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.
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Residents gather to oppose drilling in Thompson-Divide
Federal and state officials, along with a trio of Garfield County commissioners, heard loud and clear from 30 of the citizens at the meeting that drilling for gas in the Thompson-Divide area was not a good idea.