Stephen Glover
Proposed geothermal lease in Chaffee County has residents steamed
Colorado is no stranger to controversial energy extraction, with its perpetual tussles over oil, gas and uranium mining.
Now Chaffee County is seeing a battle over a new kind of energy extraction: geothermal. A Bureau of Land Management proposal to lease the geothermal rights on some 800 acres of Chaffee County land has some residents… steamed.
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