Tagged: Coal Mining

Headlines:

• State Announces Child Welfare Reforms
• Another Skier Death At Aspen
• State Snowpack Less Than Last Year
• People Respond To BLM Deferral of NF Gas Leases
• Oxbow's Elk Creek Mine To Re-open
• Grant Will Improve Paonia River Park

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• Governor To Expand Medicaid Coverage
• North Fork Earthquake May Be Mining Related
• Ouray's Wright Opera House Gets New Owners, Director and Soon, New Roof
• Funding Will Help Restore Endangered Colorado Fish
• Western Slope Skies
  

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• Cell Phone Helps In Snowmobilers Rescue
• Capitol Conversation: Legislative Preview
• Groups May Challenge West Elk Coal Expansion
• Cannabis Clubs Lighting Up

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• West Elk Mine Expansion Approved By BLM
• Curbing Gun Violence, A Discussion
• Record Gun Sales In Colorado Overwhelms Background Checks
• Hotel Jerome Gets Facelift

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• State Budget Looking Up
• Two Locals Appointed To Coal Mine Board of Examiners
• Legislator Aims To Remove Guns From College Campuses
• Juvenile Charged With Arson In Weber Fire
• Watch Report On Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel Counties
• KVNF Sports Report
• Colorado Spruce Heads to US Capitol For Christmas
• Daylight Saving Time Ends This Weekend

This election season, some political opinions are being boldly expressed around the North Fork Valley. Yard signs read: “STOP THE WAR ON COAL—FIRE OBAMA.” Area coal miners demonstrated the same message on a rainy afternoon a few weeks ago. KVNF’s Ariana Brocious took a look at the economic realities behind the “war on coal” rhetoric.

The West Elk Mine near Somerset has been given a temporary reduction in the royalties it pays to the state and federal governments. KVNF’s Ariana Brocious reports that the reduction is because the mine has encountered some tricky geological conditions.