SandBoxBlogs: Aspen Times "Coal mine is key to utility's 'green' goals"

Must be all those Koch campaign donations through Oxbow to environmental activist and 'Fracking is inherently safe' Senator Mark Udall (D-Colorado) that are prompting his brother to support Clean Coal Energy and Methane Capture...

According to Scott Condon, the "unlikely source of a coal mine near Somerset" has his beloved Senator stepping back from his campaign donations scandal with Jon Corzine and taking a second look at what benies the Republicans bring to the table that he can get talked up through Randy Udall.

'That's two scandalous campaign donors for Senator Mark Udall (D-Colorado)', Mr. Condon. 

Who cares?  Is the message Scott Condon needs to hear from the folks today.  Conservatives are for "all of the above" when it comes to energy sources.  "All of the above" includes environmentally conscious.

'EcoTerror-pen' journalists are just so stuck in the past trying to wordsmith disinformation they can't see that undeniable fact.

Congratulations and a special thank you to Bill Koch.

For once again bringing a win-win to the energy (and political) table. 

Nice job, Holy Cross!

Scott Condon:
"Producing power from methane offsets a substantially greater amount of greenhouse gases than production of the same amount of power from wind or solar.

“Holy Cross' methane project, with a capital cost of $5 million, will offer as much climate benefit as $500 million worth of solar,” Udall said. “In other words, it will displace nearly as much carbon as all the solar we have installed statewide to date.”

Worley said Holy Cross officials saw tremendous climate benefits from the project.

“It clearly seemed to us to be a good thing,” he said......

......Holy Cross has signed a second contract recently to fatten its portfolio of renewable energy. It has a deal to buy power produced by a biomass plant proposed in Gypsum by Eagle Valley Clean Energy LLC. The 10 megawatt plant would burn dead trees, construction material and other wood supplies to boil water and produce steam, which spins turbines that produce electricity.

The plant would create a good use for the beetle-kill trees prevalent in the Interstate 70 corridor, Worley said. It would also create up to 40 jobs at the plant while producing reliable, renewable energy, he said. The biomass plant could run 90-some percent of the time and wouldn't be subject to weather conditions, like wind and solar farms...." (Read more?  Click title)

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

SandBoxBlogs: Donklephant "Let’s play “Clue” – Was it Mr. Corzine in the Board Room with the “Smoking Gun” E-mail?"

'mw':
"As we have chronicled from the first week that MF Global declared bankruptcy, the mystery of the missing “sacrosanct” segregated client funds was not something that could be explained away with run-of-the-mill corporate incompetence and executive malfeasance. If investors cannot trust the custodian of their brokerage funds, the system cannot work...." (Read more?  Click title)

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

SandBoxBlogs: Glenwood Springs Post Independent/Your Letters "Udall's wilderness proposal ‘the right thing to do' "

One of the things 'SandBoxBlogs" did not set out to become was a media critic.  Yes, it's true. 

Unfortunately, there was such a huge problem with two of our local papers at the time it became impossible not to be critical.  Think back to 2009, 2010 and the early part of 2011 at 'the way things used to be on the PI and Times'.  The Times cleaned up very quickly and capped that with standing up to corporate and begging off having a publisher in-house.  From that point forward, they've been the Times we all recognize under the ownership of Swift Communications.  Much better read every morning than the direction they had been going down.

The PI is 1000% better with another 75% or so left to go.  Consumer complaints are more about  content, writers and power abuses than they are accusations of being a 'tabloid trash media'.

The balancing act for local commentators is to figure out what to lend energy to and what to ignore.

SandBox has just ignored all the gushing coverage on the virtues of Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colorado) and his latest attempt to recreate Hidden Gems under a new name.  Any land grab bill is likely to fail in the end and we'll put our energy into the real politics of it all when those politics are called upon.

With that said, it is hard to watch the short memory span of local letter to the editor writers.  All this gushing and heaping of praise onto Udall's 'sainted' head is pretty tough to ignore when the reality of Sen. Mark Udall's politics are such that he will pander to either side of the coin when it comes to environmnental issues.

Fortunately, Colorado conservatives have fairly long memories and that is not good news for either Udall or Bennet.

Here are some reminders that balance out these praise filled letters to editors lately.  Wonder why these stories are pushed away to the back archives by the PI?  Hmmmmm......

http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_18657546

http://coloradoindependent.com/104256/the-wizards-of-oil-how-the-koch-brothers-influence-environmental-politics

http://sandboxcommentators.blogspot.com/2011/10/sandbox-comments-glenwood-springs-post_9213.html

http://sandboxcommentators.blogspot.com/2011/12/sandbox-comments-colorado-peak-politics.html

http://sandboxcommentators.blogspot.com/2011/11/sandbox-comments-summit-county-citizens_2194.html

(Read today's letter praising Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colorado)?  Click title)

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

SandBox Comments: Colorado Peak Politics "TAINTED TENDER: Compass Colorado Calls On Senator Udall To Return Nearly $5,000 In Corzine Cash "

“With a criminal investigation looking into Jon Corzine’s shady Wall Street firm, Mark Udall should immediately return Corzine’s tainted campaign cash,” said Tyler Q. Houlton, president of Compass Colorado. “Mark Udall may pretend to stand up to Wall Street bankers, but his campaign war chest suggests otherwise.”

(via Colorado Peak Politics)


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