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Posts Tagged alternative energy

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Aspen looking underground for clean energy source

By | 07.12.11 | 3:14 pm

The city of Aspen is planning to drill a hole 1,000 feet deep in a gravel parking lot this fall to explore whether there is enough heat underground to provide affordable and sustainable carbon-neutral energy.

Reeling BP looks to resume Colorado drilling, alt energy projects

By | 06.17.10 | 12:15 am

BP in the coming months may have to look to its lucrative natural gas fields in southwestern Colorado to recoup the massive financial hit it’s taking in the wake of the worst oil spill in American history.

Study: Political leadership, policy draw green jobs, capital to Colorado

By | 06.16.10 | 4:44 pm

A new report by an independent Montana-based nonprofit research group indicates Colorado is well ahead of other Rocky Mountain states in developing a green energy economy.

Produced by Headwaters Economics, the report concludes that the combination of public policy decisions,…

Biomass power production takes step back in N.M., forward in Colorado

By | 03.25.10 | 9:47 am

One of the potential silver linings in the dark cloud of the ongoing mountain pine bark beetle epidemic – which has ravaged more then 2 million acres of lodgepole pine trees in Colorado and Wyoming – is the possibility of…