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Oil and Gas, Crypto Buildout Drive Critical Demand for Power on Texas Grid

May 23, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ EcoFlight Texas is scrambling to build renewables to meet demand and stabilize power prices in the far western part of the state, with grid load expected to double by 2040 as oil and gas companies electrify operations and the crypto mining sector expands, finds a new report.After quantifying the potential electrification of ...
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Here’s how much water is flowing to the Great Salt Lake as the snow melts

May 22, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ About 37% more water is flowing into the Great Salt Lake from its tributaries than in a typical year, according to federal data. (Megan Banta | The Salt Lake Tribune) Water levels are up in Bear River Bay during a flyover of the Great Salt Lake with EcoFlight on Tuesday, April 9, ...
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Snow lifts Great Salt Lake from record lows, but dangers persist

May 17, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Advocates worry complacency will set in. (Bryan Tarnowski | New York Times file photo) The shrinking Great Salt Lake, seen from Antelope Island State Park in Utah on March 15, 2022. The level of the Great Salt Lake is higher than in past years, but still low. Two years ago, the Great ...
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‘Without water, you can’t live here’: Mining claims like redeclaration of war for some

May 16, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post and Video ➡️ AMARGOSA VALLEY — Across the street from Judi Faber’s quaint one-story house in Amargosa Valley is a wooden stick. Initially, the 77-year-old retiree didn’t think much of it.But inside the plastic container tied to the plank is a folded-up paper — a foretelling note from a mining company claiming its ...
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Production jumps higher at Black Hills gold mine

May 16, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️  A partial aerial view of the Wharf Mine near Lead in May 2023. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight, via EcoFlight) Gold production was up and silver production was way up last year at South Dakota’s only active large-scale gold mine, according to new numbers reviewed Thursday by a state board.Chicago-based Coeur Mining owns the Wharf ...
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Opinion: Finally, the Bureau of Land Management acknowledges its conservation mandate

May 14, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ A new rule adopted by the BLM will give the agency the ability to place conservation on equal footing with other uses Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Existing gas and oil development near the Roan Plateau can be seen from an EcoFlight plane on June 25, 2018 near De Beque. On April ...
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Canadian wildfire smoke causes air quality alert in South Dakota

May 13, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️  A May 2023 view of wildfire smoke from Canada cloaking the Black Hills. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight, via EcoFlight) The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources issued an air quality alert Monday for areas of South Dakota where smoke from wildfires in Canada has settled.The alert is in effect through ...
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These are the 10 reasons Utahns can save the Great Salt Lake, a state official says

May 11, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Speakers at a three-day forum expressed hope for the lake’s future, and listed the things Utahns can do that others haven’t to protect and sustain the Great Salt Lake. (Megan Banta | The Salt Lake Tribune) Fremont Island during a flyover of the Great Salt Lake with EcoFlight on Tuesday, April 9, ...
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Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands Is the Biggest Conservation Opportunity Left in the West. If Congress Won’t Protect it, Should Biden Step in?

May 5, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Local coalitions are urging the president to meet his administration’s conservation goals and fight the climate and biodiversity crises by creating new national monuments. But even some locals who want to see such lands saved don’t want them protected like that. OWYHEE CANYONLANDS, Ore.—Drive 50 miles from Boise, Idaho, past the suburbs, ...
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Protect the Dolores – the other side

May 2, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ NATURITA, Colo. (KREX) – Residents of the small town of Naturita gave Sen. John Hickenlooper an ear full of concerns about the Dolores National Monument proposal.Now let’s hand the microphone to the advocates.Scott Braden, project director of Colorado Wildlands, tells Western Slope Now Protect the Dolores, a coalition of conservation, community and business groups, ...
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