Aspen Environmental Group is currently providing assistance in the preparation of two programmatic environmental documents that are the first of their kind to analyze well stimulation treatments specific to California.

Aspen Environmental Group is recognized as one of California’s most experienced firms in conducting CEQA and NEPA analysis for transmission lines. In 2014, Aspen bolstered that massive experience with several additional major transmission projects throughout California, Arizona, and Nevada.

Aspen’s Cultural Resources group is growing. Group Manager Dr. Beth Bagwell and her team of cultural resources specialists are Registered Professional Archaeologists who meet the Secretary of the Interior’s qualification criteria.

Aspen Environmental Group assisted the California Energy Commission in evaluating potential impacts associated with the proposed Palen Solar Electric Generating Station (PSEGS) to be located adjacent to Interstate-10 in the Chuckwalla Valley, an area east of Palm Springs in the remote Colorado Desert.

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has issued grants to California counties “for the development or revision of rules and policies that facilitate the development of eligible renewable energy resources, and their associated electric transmission facilities, and the processing of permits for eligible renewable energy resources” (Pub. Res. Code § 25619).

Aspen’s GIS Department, under the direction of Anton Kozhevnikov and his team of dedicated GIS specialists, are preparing to hit the road with a new product: the Resource Asset Management System, or RAMS.

Aspen’s Energy Resource Economics practice director Catherine Elder spoke at the Heartland Consumers Power District Annual Meeting on April 10, 2014 in Madison, South Dakota. Asked to address “The Rush Towards Natural Gas.”

Aspen was recently awarded a contract with the San Bernardino County Department of Public Works (County) to prepare environmental documentation and regulatory permits for the proposed Dola Ditch and Lanzit Ditch Bridge Replacement Projects.

Catherine Elder now heads Aspen’s Energy Resource Economics Practice. Formerly known as the Integrated Electricity Analysis and Policy Group, ERE will continue to perform integrated policy and economic analysis of energy resource issues.

2014 conferences

In 1993, just 18 months after Aspen was founded, President Hamid Rastegar assembled a large team of experts to prepare an EIR/EIS for a controversial 150-mile crude oil pipeline from Kern County, through downtown Los Angeles County, ending at refineries in Wilmington.

Aspen Environmental Group is pleased to announce the opening of our newest office in Tempe, Arizona with new hire Philip Lowe! Our Tempe office will serve as a local base of operations to provide the same high-quality environmental services provided by our six California offices.

Aspen energy policy economist and natural gas expert Catherine Elder spoke at a Natural Gas Development Summit held in Taipei in mid-November. The Summit was hosted by the U.S. State Department and Taiwan’s Bureau of Energy and was staged by the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research.

Palmdale Water District (PWD) recently awarded Aspen a contract amendment to continue work on the Littlerock Sediment Removal Project located in the Littlerock Recreation Area of the Angeles National Forest.

In October 2013, Aspen Cultural Resources Specialist Dr. Sarah Heffner was invited to speak at the first meeting of the recently formed Chinese Railroad Workers Archaeology Network Workshop, a part of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project, which was held at Stanford University from October 10-12.

As a volunteer for the California Condor Recovery Program sponsored by U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the Santa Barbara Zoo, Aspen’s Lead Environmental Monitor Jenny Slaughter gained access to some of our state’s most precious avian resources-the nesting California Condor.

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View the list of conferences Aspen attended in 2013.