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Signup to receive Bruce’s monthly Captain’s Blog Starship 1XE, Day 15 in the month August, Earth Calendar year 2024. I have traveled near and far and being a mountain man back in the day, I developed a deep awe for the special landscapes where tectonic plates collide and override each other. The Beartooths are just ...
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Original Post: Listen to the Story ➡️ EcoFlight, piloted by Bruce Gordon, prepares for take off from the North Fork Valley Airport near Paonia, Colorado FEATURE: Citizen’s for a Health Community and EcoFlight recently took 10 flights over the North Fork Valley and Grand Mesa to view low to high developmental potential areas for oil and ...
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Original Post: Listen to the Newscast ➡️ EcoFlight, piloted by Bruce Gordon, prepares for take off from the North Fork Valley Airport near Paonia, Colorado FEATURE: Citizen’s for a Health Community and EcoFlight recently took 10 flights over the North Fork Valley and Grand Mesa to view low to high developmental potential areas for oil and ...
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Original Post ➡️ An aerial view of the Pinyon Plain Mine in Arizona, located near the Grand Canyon and near Red Butte, a sacred site of the Havasupai Tribe. Photo by Bruce Gordon / Ecoflight Tribal leaders are condemning the primary producer of uranium in the United States for transporting hazardous materials through their territories ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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