July 21, 2007--Phelps Dodge fights Denver to keep its water flowing (Rocky Mountain News)
Mining giant Phelps Dodge is going head-to-head with Colorado's largest water users to shore up water supplies for the Climax molybdenum mine it hopes to reopen high above Dillon Reservoir. At stake is a watershed whose streams are critical to the Front Range, the Western Slope and a superheated international molybdenum market. Phelps Dodge has asked, in a case pending in federal district court, to affirm its right to divert water sooner than it has been allowed to in the past, a move that would make it harder for Denver to fill Lake Dillon during times of drought.
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