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Vail Resorts ditches wind credits, uses cash for fire restoration
Taking advantage of nealry two feet of fresh snow on Vail Mountain, Andy Henkes blasts down Dragon's Teeth in China Bowl. AP photo.
Vail Resorts, based just down the road in Broomfield, is ditching wind credits and will instead put cash toward a project to restore the area burned by Colorado’s devastating Hayman fire.
The company first started purchasing renewable energy credits — which essentially allows a company to buy the environmental benefits from wind power that’s located elsewhere — in 2006. (Confused about renewable energy credits? Read more about RECs, and the controversy surrounding their value, at DailyCamera.com.) The company declined to renew its contract to buy the RECs from Boulder-based Renewable Choice Energy.
From the Associated Press:
Broomfield-based Vail Resorts and the U.S. Forest Service said they would each contribute $750,000 over three years to the restoration project. The National Forest Foundation is raising the remaining $2.5 million.
The Hayman fire destroyed 600 buildings, including 133 homes, as it burned trees and vegetation on about 215 square miles in 2002. Erosion from burned areas caused sediment to build up around Cheesman Reservoir, threatening a main source of water for Denver homes.
Most of the work would focus on about 70 square miles of the most severely affected areas in four watersheds feeding the Upper South Platte River. Plans include planting more than 200,000 trees, plus willows, dogwood, grasses and sage to restore river areas.
The project also aims to enhance trails and restore river habitat for fish and threatened species like the Montane skipper butterfly.
Read the full story at DailyCamera.com or learn more about renewable energy credits.
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