Biomass power production takes step back in N.M., forward in Colorado

Thursday, 25 March 2010 14:41

One of the potential silver linings in the dark cloud of the ongoing mountain pine bark beetle epidemic – which has ravaged more then 2 million acres of lodgepole pine trees in Colorado and Wyoming – is the possibility of alternative energy in the form of biomass. Even as Sen. Mark Udall blasts Republicans for blocking key hearings on his bill to free up funds for national forest thinning to reduce wildfire risk, he has supported other uses for all that dead wood –including proposed biomass power plants in places like Vail.