Tagged: Coal Mines

Local Newscast
8:20 am
Thu January 24, 2013

KVNF Local Newscast, Thursday, January 24, 2013

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Headlines:

  • Paonia Mayor discusses BLM meeting at Town Hall
  • Immigrants who finish high school expected to get in-state tuition
  • Coal projected to become top energy provider by 2030
  • Elk Creek Mine in Somerset still closed
  • Minor earthquake felt on Western Slope
  • Snowmobile fatality near Overland Reservoir

Energy
9:39 am
Tue November 13, 2012

Coal Mine Converts Waste Methane into Electricity

Credit Brendon Bosworth
Tom Vessels at the Elk Creek Mine.

The North Fork Valley is now home to a new form of "green" electricity. On Friday, Oxbow’s Elk Creek mine officially launched a 3 megawatt project generating electricity from methane gas. KVNF’s Ariana Brocious reports that the project is the culmination of years of work from an unlikely alliance: involving the mine, a gas company, electric co-ops and the uber environmentally-conscious Aspen Skiing Company.


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Local Newscast
1:57 pm
Tue May 1, 2012

KVNF Local News: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012