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Huge plumes of heat-trapping methane wasted in gas drilling, infrared reveals

By | 10.15.09 | 11:59 am

Natural gas wells and storage tanks throughout Colorado may look fairly benign to the casual observer, but infrared cameras show them gushing heat-trapping methane into the atmosphere, according to the New York Times and a new documentary called “Split

Company withdraws Hunter Canyon-area mine application

By | 09.04.09 | 2:11 pm

The company proposing an underground coal mine west of Grand Junction in Mesa and Garfield counties has pulled its permit application with the Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety because of new requirements by the U.S. Bureau of Land…

News Nuggets, 10 August 2009: Atomic Age redux in Naturita

By | 08.10.09 | 6:41 pm

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NUCLEAR SIREN: The Durango Herald today launched the first in a series on a proposal to open a uranium mill near the town of Naturita, between Durango and Grand Junction. People are frightened, recalling…