Tag: environment
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US unveils plan to limit drilling on Colorado’s Roan Plateau
DENVER — Federal land managers released a tentative plan Tuesday to protect most of the wild and energy-rich Roan Plateau in western Colorado, a step toward implementing a landmark compromise between conservationists and an energy company. The deal allows limited drilling for natural gas on top of the 84-square-mile plateau, renowned for its forests, sage…
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US unveils plan to limit drilling on Colorado’s Roan Plateau
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER — Federal land managers released a tentative plan Tuesday to protect most of the wild and energy-rich Roan Plateau in western Colorado, a step toward implementing a landmark compromise between conservationists and an energy…
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Reliance on downtown plant has not kept Colorado Springs electric rates low, study shows
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs Utilities’ residential electric rate is comparatively high despite reliance on the old downtown coal-burning plant, a federal report shows. And continued use of the Martin Drake Power Plant will cost more in the…
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Reliance on downtown plant has not kept Colorado Springs electric rates low, study shows
Colorado Springs Utilities’ residential electric rate is comparatively high despite reliance on the old downtown coal-burning plant, a federal report shows. And continued use of the Martin Drake Power Plant will cost more in the long run, global consultants have advised. Wednesday, the CSU board is to take a long-awaited vote on a new Electric…
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Billionaire conservationist proposes big sawmill for San Luis Valley
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER — A billionaire conservationist is planning to build a large sawmill in the San Luis Valley to help process timber harvested from his ranch. The Denver Post reports (http://dpo.st/1Ppyojm ) that Louis Bacon’s 172,000-acre Trinchera…
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Billionaire conservationist proposes big sawmill for San Luis Valley
DENVER — A billionaire conservationist is planning to build a large sawmill in the San Luis Valley to help process timber harvested from his ranch. The Denver Post reports (http://dpo.st/1Ppyojm ) that Louis Bacon’s 172,000-acre Trinchera Blanca Ranch harvests about 2.5 million board feet of timber every year. The Trinchera Blanca Ranch is Colorado’s largest adjoining…
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Navajo Nation opens San Juan River for livestock
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GALLUP, N.M. — Livestock will again be able to use the San Juan River now that Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye (be-GAY’) says the river is safe again. Watering activity was suspended in the wake…
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Navajo Nation opens San Juan River for livestock
GALLUP, N.M. — Livestock will again be able to use the San Juan River now that Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye (be-GAY’) says the river is safe again. Watering activity was suspended in the wake of the Gold King Mine spill in southern Colorado in August. The Gallup Independent reports (http://bit.ly/1hoDjlp ) that the Navajo…
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House GOP revives bill protecting firms that clean up mines
DENVER — Congressional Republicans revived “Good Samaritan” legislation Thursday designed to encourage companies and nonprofits to help clean up thousands of abandoned mines across the nation by protecting them from liability for environmental accidents. The proposal was one of three the House Natural Resources Committee unveiled after the Environmental Protection Agency inadvertently unleashed 3 million…
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Government investigators: EPA could have prevented Colorado mine spill
BILLINGS, Mont. — Government investigators squarely blamed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday for a 3 million gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine, saying an EPA cleanup crew rushed its work and failed to consider the complex engineering involved, triggering the very blowout it hoped to avoid. The spill that fouled rivers in…