tri-state power
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Motives, timing of Hickenlooper’s ‘unusual’ climate change order questioned
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There’s no issue more partisan in Colorado than energy production, so it’s not surprising that opinions of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s draft executive order on climate change are divided right along party lines. But some observers are surprised the governor is going there at all. “We do not have a state record of governors using executive…
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Two Colorado coal-fired power units to close in clean-air deal
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One coal-fired power plant in Colorado will shut down and part of a second plant will stop operating under an agreement that will make deep cuts in air pollution but cost at least 90 jobs over the next decade, officials said Thursday. The Nucla Station power plant in southwestern Colorado and its coal supplier, the New Horizon Mine, will…
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Looking back, Ritter proud of policies that have Colorado ‘Powering Forward’
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When former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter was elected to his first and only term in the governor’s mansion in 2006, Colorado generated more than 70 percent of its electricity by burning coal – the majority of it from Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Ten years later, despite the “New Energy Economy” Ritter championed for four years,…
