Bottom-line business sense?: Aspen Skiing Co. spends $6 million to combat alleged methane-induced bad weather

SkiCo spends $6M to harvest methane from Colo. coal plant | Aspen Daily News Online

The Aspen Skiing Co. is investing $6 million to harvest methane emissions from a coal mine in Somerset, Colo. and convert the greenhouse gas into renewable energy for the local grid.

SkiCo president and CEO Mike Kaplan outlined the project Monday at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) Forests at Risk Symposium, holding it up as an example of how the forest and snow-dependent ski industry ought to combat climate change...
“Guess what? This can be replicated,” he said, in remarks that bluntly addressed the bottom-line business sense of protecting forests and snow for his company and the ski industry.
...He said company officials learned from early renewable energy projects, like solar arrays at Aspen Highlands, that they needed to look for bigger, systemic solutions.

“It’s greenwashing,” he said of the Highlands solar installation. “It’s 2 [kilowatts]. It’s not even enough to power the control headquarters that’s right next to it.”