Green River
May 18, 2010--Wyoming nervous as demand grows on Colorado River (Summit Daily)
Wyoming has an unusual problem among the states in the Colorado River system: lots of water and, other than supporting some fine trout fishing, no way to put a significant amount of it to use.
April 2, 2010--Water project backer and environmentalist face off (Summit Daily)
An environmentalist and the backer of a proposed pipeline that would ship water from southwest Wyoming to Colorado sparred over the $3 billion project during a debate at the University of Wyoming.
February 19, 2010--Water fallout (High Country News)
The former uranium boomtown of Green River sits along I-70 in eastern Utah, 100 miles from the closest city. Now it may become the Western outpost of America's nascent nuclear renaissance. Blue Castle Holdings, a 3-year-old, politically connected startup, wants to build a nuclear power plant here -- Utah's first, and the first in the West since 1987.
February 3, 2010--Two groups challenge water-rights applications (Grand Junction Sentinel)
Two Utah environmental organizations are challenging water-rights applications for a proposed uranium mill in Colorado. Red Rock Forests and Living Rivers filed statements of opposition in Montrose County Water Court to applications by Energy Fuels Resources LLC for three permits.
January 15, 2010--Flaming Gorge pipeline users lining up (Pueblo Chieftain)
An entrepreneur who wants to build a 560-mile water pipeline from Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Wyoming to Colorado’s Front Range says he has lined up letters of interest from water users all along the route. The exception so far is El Paso County, where water providers want to talk about other options for where water could be stored and create a task force.
October 3, 2009--A return of Colorado's oil shale boom? (Aspen Times)
A professor from the Colorado School of Mines in Boulder thinks it is possible that oil shale production could return to the Western Slope within a couple of decades. But, stressed Jeremy Boak, head of the Center for Oil Shale Technology and Research at the school, that will not happen without considerable additional research by the oil and gas industry and others.
September 21, 2009--Bureau: Green River lacks water for pipeline plan (Greeley Tribune)
Officials with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation say the Green River basin
in Wyoming could provide less water over the long term than a private
entrepreneur has applied pump from it for a planned pipeline to
Colorado. Colorado entrepreneur Aaron Million has applied to pump 250,000 acre feet of water a year from the Green River. Million says he may reduce his request.
September 5, 2009--Developer says pipeline could move less water (Denver Post)
An entrepreneur proposing to build a
multi-billion-dollar pipeline to carry water from Wyoming to Colorado
says he's considering reducing the amount of water he's seeking. Aaron
Million of Ft. Collins, Colo., has proposed building a pipeline to
carry up to 250,000 acre feet of water from the Green River in Wyoming
to Colorado's Front Range.
August 22, 2009--Fish & Wildlife Service: Front Range pipeline study must address fish (Sky Hi Daily News)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a proposal to pump water from
the Green River in Wyoming to Colorado's Front Range could threaten
federally protected fish species. The wildlife agency says an
environmental study needs to determine if the Green River can provide
water for the pipeline and other water projects while still maintaining
suitable flows for fish.
