Read between the lines of the latest developments at Aspen City Hall and you can’t help but realize The Canary Initiative—the admirably chirpy, feel-good plan to rid Aspen of environmental waste and liberal guilt—is dead as a doornail.
Read on if you like your irony served up on the barbie with all the political fixings. After all, Aspen has its own barbie, the gas-fired faux fireplace smack in the middle of downtown that city global warming project manager Dan Richardson says has got to go. And don’t forget the Canary Initiative was named after the birds who gave their lives to a lack of oxygen so that miners could live to dig another day.
So dig this. The gassing of the gas fireplace is arguably the best news to come out of The Canary Initiative’s report this week to City Council. To deep-six that particular pollutant, all the Council has to do is to authorize the Canaries to turn off the switch—problem solved.
But not so fast, tree huggers. When it comes to the two major causes of pollution in Aspen and Pitkin County, City Council punted with a directional kick to the coffin corner of the nouveau environmental consciousness. Need proof? Take a deep breath, and then take the preponderance of fatboy private jets that pollute the hell out of the Roaring Fork Valley every time the Jetsons come in for a landing.
“There are some limitations as to what not only the city of Aspen but Pitkin County can do,” Richardson said in a newspaper story.
Translation: the city of Aspen, Pitkin County, and/or The Canary Initiative can do a god-blessed thing about airborne pollution born of our air traffic. The Canary might as well have is muzzle clenched over the tailpipe of Jerry Johnson’s Dallas Cowboys jet. The worst cause of pollution is not about to get any better.
But it gets even better than that. The other major source of pollution sticking in the craw of The Canary Initiative and anyone else with a working knowledge of Highway 82 is the bottleneck known euphemistically as the “entrance to Aspen.” There may be no immediate way out of this particular conundrum, because Aspen City Council wants to guard the process that comes after the process dissecting the process that will one day lead to a new process that requires further processing.
You want the straight shot? Or the preferred alternative preferred by Dan Richardson? Or how about the modified straight shot? Maybe the modified hangout might work.
“I personally feel there are alternatives to the preferred alternative,” Councilman Torre said. “I think it’s a little untimely, considering the process we’re trying to go through.”
Take you pick, fellow Romans: there’s plenty of time to fiddle while the global warming continues that apocalyptic slow burn.
Aspen City Council unanimously approved The Canary’s plan to slice and dice greenhouse gas emissions to 30 percent below their 2004 levels by 2020, and 80 percent below 2004 levels by 2050. And why not? Based on the airport and automobile pollution in Aspen, there is absolutely no chance of reaching those goals. If you don’t like it you can go suck on a tailpipe at the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport.
Let’s get real. The Canary Initiative is dead, a suicide caused by oxygen deprivation of a noxious sort. Cremation on the barbie in downtown Aspen has been scheduled, effective immediately, so that the tweety bird with the tiny brain can go meet its maker while there’s still fuel to burn.
Is this a surprise to anyone? Every time this topic comes up I point out the hypocrisy of Aspen, only to be attacked for pointing out the obvious. Aspen suffers the same Liberal Limousine syndrome as the rest of the liberals in that the idea is good and as long as someone else sacrifices for the cause. But God forbid that they give up their private jets, their second homes heated to a constant temperature of 72 degrees all year long, their heated driveways, hot tubs, pools, etc, etc, etc. Just look at their “Champion” of this whole Globle Warming Crusade, Al Gore, zipping around in a private jet, putting out more emissions in one trip then I would in a whole year, to “get the word out.”
Save your hype and sky is falling banter for your idiot liberal friends who you are hoping will make changes so they don’t have to. Yeah, the world may be warming up, but don’t expect the liberals to be the ones to save it, they appear to be to busy accelerating the process to really give a damn. (I mean, you can’t expect Nancy Polosi to not want a bigger jet, I mean, how in the world can she go from place to place without her fan club?) Hypocrites? You betcha!!
Is this a surprise to anyone? Every time this topic comes up I point out the hypocrisy of Aspen, only to be attacked for pointing out the obvious. Aspen suffers the same Liberal Limousine syndrome as the rest of the liberals in that the idea is good and as long as someone else sacrifices for the cause. But God forbid that they give up their private jets, their second homes heated to a constant temperature of 72 degrees all year long, their heated driveways, hot tubs, pools, etc, etc, etc. Just look at their “Champion” of this whole Globle Warming Crusade, Al Gore, zipping around in a private jet, putting out more emissions in one trip then I would in a whole year, to “get the word out.”
Save your hype and sky is falling banter for your idiot liberal friends who you are hoping will make changes so they don’t have to. Yeah, the world may be warming up, but don’t expect the liberals to be the ones to save it, they appear to be to busy accelerating the process to really give a damn. (I mean, you can’t expect Nancy Polosi to not want a bigger jet, I mean, how in the world can she go from place to place without her fan club?) Hypocrites? You betcha!!
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