All Posts Tagged With: "West Elk Mine"
Aspen Skiing Co. Partners With Coal Mine
for Methane Power
For a ski company that heralds powder days, Aspen Skiing Co. on Friday rallied atop a coal mine to applaud a power day. With a tap of a finger on a glass screen, a rumbling generator, fueled by methane vented from the Oxbow Corp.’s Elk Creek Mine, began producing electricity.
11Nov2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Coal Mine Decision Sounds Alarm Bells
With a decision looming, this week’s approval of a lease sale for a coal mine expansion in a roadless area near Paonia had the blessings of top officials in Washington, D.C. The bigger mine would require methane vents to be drilled in the roadless area.
17Nov2011 | admin | 3 comments | ContinuedColorado Coal Increasingly Headed Overseas
28.8 million tons of coal valued at $1 billion is a lot of domestic energy. Except when it’s not. According to the second-quarter earnings report for Arch Coal, the St. Louis, Mo., company that owns Colorado’s West Elk Mine, 2011 is expected to be a banner year – based at least in part on increasing exports to overseas markets.
6Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Oil/Gas Industry: Trust us! We care, we really do. The rest of the us: No! 
Thanks for the info Fred! 
I think its a 10% mandate not 5%. 
To see this exciting change as "scary" seems incredibly short-sited to me. Between the increasing power demands caused by ...
Thanks for highlighting all the great work the Northern Colorado Chapter of CRES is doing. One small but important correction--the ...