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Ritter to Feds: don’t dump your mercury mess on Grand Junction

By | 07.30.09 | 3:40 pm

Gov. Bill Ritter made his opposition to mercury storage near Grand Junction official Thursday, sending a letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu opposing the plan for three key reasons:

First, he said the Grand Junction Disposal Site south of…

Colorado clean-energy programs benefit from $20 million stimulus boost

By | 07.21.09 | 11:09 am

The U.S. Department of Energy Monday delivered on nearly $20 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Colorado.

The money is being touted as a huge boost to Gov. Ritter’s

Rio Blanco and Garfield counties:
A tale of two nuclear gas blasts

By | 07.01.09 | 10:56 am

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, four nuclear devices were exploded underground on Colorado’s Western Slope in an effort to free up commercially marketable amounts of natural gas from dense sandstone formations.