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This week on inside

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a boulder news Council OK's
continued exploration into creating

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a local electric utility cameras capture

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a rare river otter sighting and local
beekeepers feel the sting of pesticide use.

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Welcome to INSIDE Boulder News I'm
Natalie Wood. Nearly two months after

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a city analysis showed that charter metric
could be met City Council authorized

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staff on Tuesday to continue
exploring the possible creation of

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a local electric utility the
eight to one vote came after

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a public hearing about fifty
community members spoke with

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a viewpoint three from excitement about
the potential opportunities to concerns

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about risk and governance I spoke with
regional sustainability cord Nader Jonathan

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Cohen about what comes next and now we want
to look at what we continue to call the

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should we need

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a supply so we know that we can but the
council the community need to understand

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what value is added by moving forward why
does municipal station provide more than

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what we have right now today there are

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a lot of pieces that are going to be
happening over the next couple of months I

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think most notably is to continue our
evaluation or analysis of the technical the

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financial and the legal feasibility of
creating the utility So what folks are going

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to see is a lot of

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a lot of work on refining and continuing
to sharpen our pencils in terms of the

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modeling that was done but also counts
authorize staff to move forward on some of

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the more legal aspects of the project also
be focusing on the governance structure

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of the utilities so looking at what options
are out there how different utilities

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function in terms of governing boards or
how their councils essential provide the

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input and the oversight of the way the
utility is run so that will be critically

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important and then also will be moving very
quickly on the third party analysis and

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evaluation of the modeling that the city
did over the past many months at the start

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of the council meeting city manager Jane
Brad again spoke about why addressing our

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energy supply is so important he links the
excess in this area to success in the

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communities overall commitment to climate
action this community emphasized the

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importance of demand side with the things
that we have control over our efforts

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here in terms of

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a. Mission scene conservation with the
renewal of the climate action plan tax last

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November passed with an eighty two percent
I think that's extraordinary and so we

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continue to be very very aggressive on our
demand side actions if we truly want to

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reduce emissions we have to look at the
supply side and there are multiple ways to

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do that we're really focused on the goals
we're focused on achieving Boulder's

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energy future goals that are looking at
emissions looking at renewables looking at

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how we protect our customers and have the
ability to predict our rates over time

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and stabilize our rates over time protect
different populations of residents and

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businesses here in Boulder so we have
been focused on the goals to assess the

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analysis Council authorized
moving forward with the hiring of

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a third party independent evaluator report
from that effort as well as other face

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to work items will be discussed by council
at the July twenty third study session

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check out the energy future website for
up to date information this playful

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creature likes to slide down snow
covered or muddy hills and then with

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a splash in the creek Bowl there make the
fitting home for the North American river

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otter although for more than

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a hundred years it seems like the species
had reached local extinction but

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a wildlife surveillance camera recently
captured images of the first river outer in

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the area in

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a generation to cite this creature in
Colorado is rare but for the last century

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decided in Boulder was unheard
of the northern river otter is

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a species that we've always really hoped
that we'd discover nobody's seen one in

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Boulder down in the city in over

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a hundred years but thanks to intense
reintroduction efforts by the state river

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otters are moving down on Colorado's
endangered species list in the late seventy's

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Colorado Parks and Wildlife moved over
one hundred animals into rivers on the

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western slope and have been
monitoring them ever sent we did

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a survey in two thousand and two very
little status and. Based on the results of

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the data that we got from that effort we
were able to down list the species from

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seed endangered to state recently river
otters have been spotted in watch in

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Colorado and even in Rocky Mountain National
Park but never in Boulder City limits

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until now

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a camera set up by open space in Mountain
Park captured this rare glimpse at these

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cameras give us the really accurate look
of what's actually out there they have he

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in motion sensing technology so what
animals walk by and it triggers the camera

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take a photo and it's really

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a way for us to get some behind the scenes
look at what's actually going on we've

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always known that there's

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a chance that they could be around if
they're somewhat graphically nearby. So we

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was really excited to see it finally wander
down the state evaluates the animals

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success in Colorado based on distribution
throughout the rivers so spotting the

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river otter in Boulder is

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a promising sign this really demonstration
of the success of the state having

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management of the species and being able
to to reintroduce it and get reestablished

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in the self-sustaining population of this
river otters throughout western Colorado

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and some of some of those populations
delivered to the eastern ranged as well go to

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wildlife state C.-O.

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Dot us for more on river otters
and to report citing from

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a habitat made for river otters to the
perfect climate for many trees boulders

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microclimate and soils
promotes the growth of

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a wider variety of trees than anywhere
else along the Front Range the National

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Arbor Day Foundation has named the boulder
Tree City USA for the twenty ninth

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consecutive year to recognize the city's
commitment to keeping those trees healthy

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you can celebrate the Arbor Day season in
Boulder with the children's art exhibit

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and tree plantings planned through May
teen just visit Boulder Colorado that Gov

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for details local beekeepers. Are getting
ready to open up their hives for the

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season but many are facing

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a buzz kill Lauren Peterson explains their
challenge. This is some of the awards

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with one local fairs and state competitions
with me and that's my wife Rosa there's

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been

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a family and everyone was like I started in
to instill in our kids on the farm values

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and ethics in an urban setting it's
spring and Miles McGahee president of the

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Boulder County beekeeping association is
getting his eyes ready for another season

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that's the key to be keeping right there
it blocks the ability to communicate and

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it tricks them into thinking they have
to leave speaking a leaving local B.

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Heap or is

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a reported colony collapse since two
thousand and six I had one hundred twenty

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hives and in one season I got right
down to twelve puffs. You can

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see some of them have yellow balls on their
legs that's pollen despite the decline

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bees and their keepers are still hard at
work to keep the colonies thriving but

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they feel that the E.P.A.

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Is not working hard enough so nationally
many are taking action the point being

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with the lawsuit against the E.P.A.

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As we feel like they haven't performed
their duties to regulate the past aside

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industry there she is thank goodness
beautiful black cornelian with the little

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white dot on her back there she lands did
you see here she backed into that hole

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and laid an egg finding the queen bee
is essential to could be heaping as

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a solving colony collapse viruses mites and
even cell phone towers have been blamed

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but the group taking
action against the P.A.

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Is certain of something else we have to
move forward but the pesticides we're using

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now are totally inappropriate for the
environment he's referring to near to Nick

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annoyed Caesar pretreated with pesticides
before they were planted We used to treat

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it only when we saw

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a problem now we treat every seed
regardless and every cell of that.

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Poison it Miles will be heading to
California later this month to pick up new

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colonies to distribute around Boulder he
hopes that with greater awareness we can

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solve colony collapse for inside Boulder
News I'm Lauren Peterson will last Tuesday

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only. To find out more about the ball
there be community visit Boulder County

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beekeepers dot org Thanks for watching
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