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Seeing potential Gila Bend national monument from a new perspective — 1,000 feet up

June 6, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Conservationists and tribal leaders are trying to get a national monument designation for a Gila Bend area. Sam Dingman/ KJZZ On a recent Wednesday morning, I drive up to an airfield outside Buckeye to take a ride over Gila Bend on a six-seater plane. The trip gave me the opportunity to see a part of the ...
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Holy Cross: Waste no energy, want no energy

June 5, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The 5-megawatt solar array in Woody Creek is a prime location for a battery storage facility, said Holy Cross Energy President and CEO Bryan Hannegan. The 35-acre facility was completed in 2021, before Holy Cross prioritized storage. This view was provided during an EcoFlight day trip. Courtesy photo The Western Slope energy cooperative ...
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Holy Cross: Waste no energy, want no energy

June 5, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The 5-megawatt solar array in Woody Creek is a prime location for a battery storage facility, said Holy Cross Energy President and CEO Bryan Hannegan. The 35-acre facility was completed in 2021, before Holy Cross prioritized storage. This view was provided during an EcoFlight day trip. Courtesy photo The Western Slope energy cooperative ...
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Appeals court sides with government in Crazy Mountains trail dispute

May 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments
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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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