Posts Tagged ‘municipalization’
Hiring Now!!
Boulder residents can look forward to "friendly people" coming door-to-door this fall, working hard to convince voters to vote against 2B and 2C. This ad and ones like it have been running on Craigslist for a few days:
Boulder Chamber to Endorse for the First Time
For the first time in its 106-year history, the Boulder Chamber of Commerce will endorse candidates for the Boulder City Council. The Chamber advocates for over 1,600 businesses employing 80,000 employees. Members include the Boulder Valley [...]
Clear Winners in the Municipalization Debate
PLAN-Boulder County put on a well structured and well attended debate of the utility municipalization question Monday night (August 22,2011) at the West Boulder Senior Center. The forum pitted Ken Regelson and Sam Weaver from Renewables YES [...]
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal | Xcel aggressively fighting city’s move to create own utility
Xcel Energy said Friday it is forming an issue committee to oppose a ballot proposal in the city of Boulder, Colo., that would create a municipal power utility. The committee is being formed “for the purpose of opposing the takeover of the [...]
Look to the Blue Line for Election 2011 Coverage
It’s that time of year again: the municipal election. Candidates will soon be slogging through forums and questionnaires, doorsteps will be littered with fliers and advertising, ballots will be arriving in the mail, and voters will be trying [...]
CEA Event: An Evening with Tom Carr
Clean Energy Action presents: An Evening With Boulder's City Attorney, Tom Carr Thursday, August 18th, 2011 First Presbyterian Church 1820 15th St. Boulder, CO 80302 6:30 Refreshments 7:00 - 8:45 Presentation The Presentation Boulder City [...]
Burn to Earn: A Cautionary Tale about a City Owning Its Utility Company
In March of 1986, having just obtained a Master’s Degree in town planning at Florida State University, I was happy to accept a job offer as the environmental planner for the relatively progressive college town of Gainesville FL — a town that is [...]
New Era News | Municipalization is on the Horizon
If Boulder’s effort to municipalize is successful, they will set the standard for commitment to fighting climate change. It would be the first city to form a municipal utility in the name of reducing carbon emissions. Read the entire article at [...]
Renewable Energy News | 50 MW of Solar? Make that 400 MW
Nothing sparks investment like a good bargain. So when officials for San Antonio, Texas, municipal utility CPS Energy started receiving bids for a 50-megawatt project, they saw a good deal and an even bigger opportunity.“We were noticing that the [...]
Put a Clean Energy Future on the Ballot
The Boulder City Council meeting this Tuesday, 7/19, 5 PM - ? will be about Boulder's Energy Future - including a public hearing on municipalization. It will be in the council chambers in the municipal building at the SW corner Broadway & [...]
