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Category: Environment

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

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Should Colorado move from beetle-kill to biomass?

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:

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Al Gore calls "bullshit" on climate propaganda

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

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

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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