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Colorado School of Mines and Carbon TerraVault Awarded $8.9 Million in DOE Funding for CarbonSAFE Project
“With this CarbonSAFE grant, Mines is excited to actively participate with the industry and the DOE to provide real time solutions to climate change,” said Ali Tura, professor of Geophysics and the Co-director of the Reservoir Characterization Project at Mines. “Sequestering CO2 into the deep subsurface versus releasing it all into the atmosphere is a long-term (millions of years) solution to sustainable human development. This project will evaluate a deep saline reservoir for greenhouse waste gas CO2 disposal.”
October 8, 2024
Crested Butte celebrates permanent protections for its ‘Red Lady,’ a victory 47 years in the making
Jessica M. Smith, engineering professor, is quoted in this article documenting the celebration in Crested Butte after the signing of an agreement that ensures Mount Emmons will not be mined. “If the commodity market had been different, they would have opened that mine,” said Smith. “It was really the market that [killed] that project, not the opposition.” The opposition, though, Smith said, took advantage of new federal environmental review laws that delayed the project enough that the market crash proved fatal.
October 8, 2024
Mines police officer gives gift of life to Aurora man searching for donor for years
Mines police officer Abby Lutalo donated a kidney to an Aurora man after seeing the sign he put on the back of his car. "I just feel grateful that I was able to do something in this world and make a difference in someone’s life," officer Lutalo said.
October 7, 2024