Comment on Breckenridge council has commitment issues with 100 percent renewable energy push

Eli Pace, Denver Post: Politics
Thu, 08/24/2017 - 9:06am

Breckenridge council has commitment issues with 100 percent renewable energy push

Breckenridge Town Council was reluctant to commit to a 100 percent, clean-energy initiative on Tuesday. Instead, the council unanimously passed a resolution that states an ambitious, but non-binding goal: Power all town facilities entirely with renewable resources by 2025. Eli Pace, Summit DailyCouncilman Mark Burke discusses a clean-energy resolution Tuesday during the Breckenridge Town Council meeting. The resolution that council ultimately passed was an abbreviated version of a draft proposal produced by a town-created task force that has been working on it for months. The proposal hinged on language affirming the town’s “commitment” to achieving 100 percent renewable energy for town facilities by 2025 and for the town as a whole by 2035. Councilman Mike Dudick, for one, had serious problems with the word “commitment” in the proposed resolution.

 

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