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A pumpjack is not a coal mine. No, that’s not the opening line to an avant garde poem. It’s another way of saying: Coalbed methane mining is not mining for coal. In fact, it’s quite different....
DATE: Nov. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
SILVERTON – Despite fears that the sight of a mustard-yellow river would turn away visitors from Southwest Colorado, ridership on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad increased about 10.5...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
DENVER – Colorado women have a message for presidential candidates: “We want equal pay.” The Women’s Foundation of Colorado released a report last week on the status of women in the state’s...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
Due to a slump in 2014 commodity prices, roughly 1.7 million farms across the country that are enrolled in the USDA’s new Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
For the past six years, a remote area of La Plata County has been the playing field for rocket science. Advanced Mobile Propulsion Test (AMPT) set up shop in 2009 on a 2-acre plot of flatland...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
Longtime Cortez resident Penny Fieldson is trading in her trucking license for a pair of haircutting shears, as she plans to open her own beauty salon, Abstract Hair and Nails, on Nov. 9. Although...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
DENVER – Colorado’s Republican attorney general said Friday she has entered the state into a lawsuit that aims to block implementation of federal carbon-pollution standards. Cynthia Coffman made...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
A Cortez woman who has made her livelihood from the oil-and-gas industry has taken the recent slump as a sign to go after her passion: creating her own line of all-natural skincare products. Kathy...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
Mining-reclamation experts this week told a congressional panel that good Samaritan legislation and funding for restoration efforts are “inseparably tied together.” The comments came during a...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
A growing retirement-age population across the Western Slope will be an important economic and real estate market driver in the coming years. Retiring baby boomers “tend to hang out in one place...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
The Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado is updating the Dolores and Montezuma County Community Development Action Plans, and public comment is encouraged. The document is...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
WASHINGTON (AP) – States and industry groups dependent on fossil fuels began filing court challenges Friday to President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
