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Possible lighting strike causes broadcasting outage in Crystal River Valley

July 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Repair team helicopters in to fix damaged telecommunications tower The Crystal River valley as seen through EcoFlight in May 2022. Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times Much of the Crystal River Valley is without broadband and public safety services after an apparent lightning strike over the weekend knocked out a Pitkin County Telecommunications tower ...

Coal Giant Arch Resources To Keep Shrinking Wyoming ‘Operational Footprint’

July 25, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Arch Resources, the second largest coal producer in Wyoming, reported Thursday that it plans to keep shrinking its “operational footprint” in Wyoming’s energy-rich Powder River Basin. Its end-goal is the “eventual closure” of its Wyoming mines. An aerial view of the Coal Creek mine about 30 miles southeast of Gillette. (Courtesy Ecoflight) ...

Dust pollution? Here’s how the Office of the Great Salt Lake plans to help

July 22, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ An aerial view of the Great Salt Lake taken from an EcoFlight plane on April 9, 2024. (credit: Kade Garner/KTVX) SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — After a recent meeting with experts in the field, the Office of the Great Lake has released a plan to combat the urgent issue of dust pollution ...

Colorado senators release guidelines for protecting Dolores River Canyon

July 18, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Statement advocates maintaining water and mining rights, continued grazing, prohibiting feesThe Dolores River rolls through the community of Gateway in Mesa County. The Gateway Canyons Resort on Colorado Highway 141 is the western mouth of the Unaweep Canyon on the left. (Jason Blevins/The Colorado Sun/EcoFlight, File)Following several forums with communities in Southwest ...

Lithium Critical to the Energy Transition Is Coming at the Expense of Water

July 18, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ A new study finds that the mining and processing of the metal critical to EV batteries and renewable energy storage projects depletes and contaminates surface water, often in already vulnerable communities. At the Salton Sea in California, geothermal plants could soon also extract lithium from brine water contained deep in the ground. ...

Emails raise questions about county monument poll’s objectivity

July 17, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ When Aaron Weiss requested internal emails from Mesa County related to a public opinion poll on a proposed national monument for the Dolores River region, he wasn’t expecting them to reveal that monument opponents were involved in suggesting poll questions.But that and other revelations produced by the emails request have him contending ...

10 Years Ago: Remembering Colorado’s Largest Landslide

July 7, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ One of the worst natural disasters in Colorado’s history took place in Mesa County on May, 25th, 2014. It came to be known as the West Salt Creek Landslide and remains the longest landslide to take place in Colorado’s historical record.Ten years later, Colorado realizes just how awful this disaster could have been, and just how lucky we are ...

Colorado’s U.S. Senators express support for added protection of Dolores River, with safeguards for existing uses

July 4, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ After meeting with locals in Mesa and Montrose counties, Sens. Bennet and Hickenlooper say additional protection around the Dolores River should not impact mining, hunting, grazing and water rights The Dolores River winds toward the Paradox Valley in Montrose County. (Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun / EcoFlight) Colorado’s U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet ...

Colorado’s U.S. Senators express support for added protection of Dolores River, with safeguards for existing uses

July 4, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ The Dolores River winds toward the Paradox Valley in Montrose County. (Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun / EcoFlight) Colorado’s U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper are on board with increased protections around the Dolores River but only if existing mining, hunting, grazing and water rights are protected.The senators on Tuesday released a statement indicating they ...