Category: GHGs
Letter to City Council in Support of a Large GHG Emitter Tax
Dear Mayor Arndt and Councilmembers Gutowsky, Pignataro, Canonico, Peel, Ohlson, and Francis – The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) has been advocating for a large greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter fee or tax since the Council…
Letter to Council Finance Committee on Proposed Delay in Tax Measures Supporting Climate Programs
Dear Councilmembers Francis, Pignataro, Peel, and Ohlson – The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) has reviewed the agenda materials prepared for the Council Finance Meeting this Thursday, February 2nd. We were shocked to see that…
FCSG Statement of Support for Cumulative Impacts Rulemaking
Submitted to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on November 29th, 2022 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) is affiliated with the Northern Colorado Alliance for a Livable Future, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based…
FCSG Statement on Resolution 2022-108 Adopting an Interim Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal
Statement updated on October 25, 2022 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) appreciates the fact that City Council will be considering an interim greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal on October 25th. We support the goal…
FCSG Position Statement on Interim GHG Pollution Reduction Goal for the City of Fort Collins
The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) began advocating for the City’s 2030 goal of 80% greenhouse gas (GHG) community pollution reductions compared to 2005 levels back in 2009. That goal was approved by City Council…
FCSG Statement on the Fort Collins 2019 Community Carbon Inventory
Posted on January 29, 2021 With the release of the City’s 2019 Community Carbon Inventory on January 27, 2021 (about a year late, understandably due to the lag in the reporting of critical data by…
PRPA Should Not Build a Gas-Fired Power Plant
Published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan on September 19, 2020 The recent collapse of our economy and routine activities is the result of a microscopic coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Without warning the entire human population…
FCSG Statement on the Importance of Including Broadcom F-gas Emissions in the City’s Single GHG Inventory
The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) insists that Broadcom’s massive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions be included in the City’s GHG inventory. Those emissions – consisting mainly of fluorinated gases (F-gases) accounted for fully 8% of…
The FCSG Story
The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) grew out of a meeting held in the spring of 2005, shortly after the Kyoto Protocol went into effect, among several people interested in getting the city to commit…
Linking Climate Protection and Peace
Speech delivered by Kevin Cross at the Fort Collins Peace Festival on September 28, 2019 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group/FCSG was formed back in 2005. We’ve spend the last 14 years focusing on climate action…