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Show A-9 The Park Record Sai/Sun/Mon/Tues, November 1-4, 2008 OUNTAIN TOWN NEWS A ROUNDUP OF NEWS FROM OTHER WESTERN SKI RESORT COMMUNITIES THE BEST WAY T& CtrT YdUR SPENDING By ALLEN BEST Record contributing writer "I want it LEED-certified," said Alan Bernholtz, the town mayor. "The school should be the leaders and be an example of energy efficiency." Ski Area Management in CANMORE, Alberta - LEED January addressed the same issue. designation is becoming more and The magazine noted that even some more common in public schools in advocates of green building describe ski towns across the West. And the LEED review as annoyingly where it's not, the absence of the bureaucratic. However, some greendesignation is a point of contention. building advocates reject the arguIn 2002, Banff Community High ment that LEED buildings are more School's renovation became the first expensive. school in Canada certified under the Brian Dunbar, who directs the LEED program. Now, a new middle Institute for the Build Environment school at Canmore, located down- at Colorado State University, cited valley at the entrance to Banff two high schools in Fort Collins, National Park, is seeking gold-level Colo., of equal capacity and built at certification in the LEED program. identical costs and with equal sizes, Gold is the third highest of four Yet the newer, greener (and LEEDlevels in LEED, which stands for certified) high school saves $105,000 Leadership in Energy and in annual operating costs. Better use of natural resources allowed the Environmental Design. School officials decided that the building^ mechanical system to be energy savings of a new school, if downsized, he said. done right, would save money in the long run instead of renovating the Mining company vows mine activaexisting school. The new middle tion in 2009 school, reports the Rocky Mountain SILVERTON, Colo. - Colorado Outlook, will require 30 to 55 per- Goldfields Inc., which several years cent less energy because of its design ago set out to resume mining and and materials. ore processing in the Silverton area, In Colorado, school districts are says is within 18 months of profstruggling with whether LEED des- itability. The company spent the ignation is worth the added cost. In summer drilling in Ross Basin. The the Eagle Valley, where Vail is locat- current plans call for work to begin ed, school officials were persuaded next May to reactivate the Pride of by architects that the money was the West, a gravity, flotation and better spent in the building itself cyanide leach mill located near than on the rigorous reviews man- Silverton. The goal is to start accepting ore from other properties in the dated by LEED. Juans beginning next But how do you vertify how San "green" a building is without the rig- September, and then begin drilling orous review of a LEED or some for ore in a nearby mine called the Gold King that is owned by similar process? That is precisely the issue now Goldfields. before Crested Butte. There, the town council is negotiating use of Todd Palin makes the rounds at town land for a school expansion. Eagle Diner The council, reports the Crested EAGLE, Colo. - Todd Palin Butte News, is emphasizing its stopped by the Eagle Diner last desire that any school construction week for a grip, grin and gripe with be certified under the LEED pro- the locals. He's the husband of gram. Republican vice presidential nomiSimilar to the argument in the nee Sarah Palin, and although he Eagle Valley, school officials in often has been appearing with his Crested Butte say they intend to spouse, last week he was running meet the goals of green-building solo. without the expense of certification. He was wearing blue jeans and a Energy efficiency advocates, howev- black jacket, with an emblem from er, say that the cost of LEED certifi- the Iron Dog snowmobile race cation will run only $40,000 to pinned to it. Personable and friend$60,000. Any third-party verification ly, he went from booth to booth in process will cost that much, main- the small diner, which can hold no tains Andris Zobs, of the Office for more than a few dozen people. Resource Efficiency. The community of 7,000 people, LEED gold possible for new school in Canmore located a half-hour down-valley from Vail, is contested turf, as is Colorado - at least in theory. There are official headquarters in Eagle for both Barack Obama and John' McCain. For decades, Eagle County was reliably Republican, but beginning in 1992 began drifting blue. But for many of the local electricians, fishing guides and builders, Obama is an abstraction - and a feared one. Although none appeared to be the sorts who make more than $250,000, the income bracket targeted by Obama's tax plan, they told Palin of fears that Obama will divert their income to less-deserving people. As well, they talked to him about hunting and wanted to know about his snowmobile racing. Women at the diner gushed at the attention of Palin, as handsome in person as he appears on television, reported the Eagle Valley Enterprise. dard have already been registered in New Mexico's San Juan County, they could be ahead for Colorado's La Plata County, where Durango is located. The ground-level ozone, explains the Durango Telegraph, is the result of tens of thousands of compressors used at oil and gas wells in the San Juan Basin from Durango south to Farmington, plus industrial facilities, the exhausts 'from two coal-fired power plants, plus the emissions of motor vehicles. Christopher Dann, of the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division, told the newspaper that non-attainment could also be in store for Colorado's La Plata County, where Durango is located. While the energy industry is partly to blame for the pollution, he said, "the "region's booming population is also coming into play, and you're seeing more cars and more emissions all the time." Snow blanket being tested at 3 ski areas SNOWMASS, Colo. - The snowpack never completely melted this summer at the Snowmass ski area, where a mound of snow 20 feet high survived even the 80-plus days of summer. The mound is the remnant of a massive jump that was part of a snowboard terrain park built last winter. Until. early October, the snow was covered by a blanket produced by a Swiss company called Landolt. The product is called Ice Protector Optiforce, and it's being used in European ski resorts, which tend to be lower and more vulnerable to the warming climate. Rich Burkley, general manager of mountain operations for the Aspen Skiing Company, said the snow blanket is expected to be most useful in protecting snow or ice at critical connections or access areas, such as at ramps below chairlifts that get skiers to trails. One goal, he told The Aspen Times, is to reduce the energy consumption needed to make snow. However, whether the blanket is cost effective is still being evaluated, he said. Also testing the blanket for effectiveness are the Vail and Telluride ski areas. Transferable development rights program launched HAILEY, Idaho - The transferof-development-rights program is being used for the first time in the Wood River Valley, where the Ketchum and Sun Valley resort areas are located. A 117-acre parcel that has rights to develop five lots is instead transferring those rights to a subdivision near the town of Hailey, where 19 lots are now permissible. Officials in Blaine County tell the Idaho Mountain Express that few landowners have been willing to place their development rights in socalled sending areas - areas where county officials would prefer not to see developing - into the pool available for transfer. In such programs, development rights become a commodity, meaning there is a price attached to them, so that a developer near a town could buy the development rights from a rural landowner. In Colorado, both Aspen and Summit County have highly developed programs. • I~J • Ozone violation could come to Durango area FARMINGTON, N.M. - WhUe violations of the federal ozone stan- 29-MONTH KEY TIERED CD % R00 WITH RELATIONSHIP REWARD STEA^XNIFE. SCHEF'S SELECTIONS $89 , ,,, , ^^:.r , ffig MENJOY 2 THREE-COURSE MEALS ^ l S W I T H 5 ENTREE CHOICES. ^fe£ RUTH'S STEAK HOUSE 435.940.5Q70 2001 CANYON Tife.; RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED Allen Best has edited mountain town newspapers for 20 years. 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