Oil Shale
August 8, 2009--State faces thirsty future (Cortez Journal)
Ten million people will live in Colorado by 2050, putting strains on the water supply that can only be met by taking water from agriculture and building new pipelines from the Western Slope to the Front Ra
- Agriculture
- California
- Colorado
- Colorado River
- Colorado River Water Conservation District
- Colorado Water Conservation Board
- Flaming Gorge Reservoir
- Interbasin Compact Committee
- Irrigation
- Northern Colorado Water Conservation District
- Oil Shale
- Population Growth
- Press Clippings
- Utah
- Water Rights
- Water Storage
- Water Supply
- Wyoming
- Yampa River
July 25, 2009--Battlement Mesa metro district offers to pump Antero's water (Glenwood Springs Post Independent)
A mystery of sorts hangs over the question of where Antero Resources, the gas drilling company planning to sink up to 200 wells in the Battlement Mesa neighborhood, is going to get the water to be used in
July 23, 2009--Inhofe oil-shale attack on Ritter uninformed by Colorado River realities (Colorado Independent)
Inhofe questioned why Ritter was on hand to tout green energy jobs
June 23, 2009--State grapples with water strategies (Pueblo Chieftain)
Colorado is moving closer to seeing the impact of a “gap” in municipal water supplies.
- Agriculture
- Arizona
- Arkansas River
- Arkansas Valley
- California
- Colorado
- Colorado River
- Colorado Water Conservation Board
- Drought
- Flaming Gorge Reservoir
- Gunnison River
- Interbasin Compact Committee
- Irrigation
- Municipal Water
- Nevada
- Oil Shale
- Population Growth
- Press Clippings
- South Platte
- Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
- Statewide Water Supply Initiative
- Super Ditch
- Water Conservation
- Water Rights
- Water Supply
- Wyoming
- Yampa River
June 9, 2009--Water scarcity and the Western oil shales (NY Times)
Vast technical and environmental challenges have long stood in the way of commercial oil shale production.
April 1, 2009--Water debate takes on new ripple: energy (Pueblo Chieftain)
Colorado is struggling to balance its needs between agricultural, municipal, industrial and recreation uses, and org- anizations such as basin roundtables are creating more collaboration and addressin
February 25, 2009--Obama administration restarts oil shale leasing in Colorado, Utah (Environmental News Service)
The Department of the Interior will offer a second round of research, development, and demonstration leases for oil shale in Colorado and Utah and withdraw the previous administration's proposal for expand
January 7, 2009--Oil shale actions draw lawsuit (Rocky Mountain News)
A coalition of 11 environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife, has notified the federal government that they will sue over two recent actions designed to foster oil shale development in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
August 25, 2008--'New Frontier' of water choices awaits state (Pueblo Chieftain)
The era of water development in Colorado is over, and the state’s new task will be to manage the water resources it has. One small problem: No one has yet articulated what the future of the state looks like.
July 23, 2008--Oil-shale debate moves West (Denver Post)
With six months left in office, the Bush administration moved Tuesday to accelerate oil-shale development across the Rocky Mountain West. Shale deposits in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming could provide 800 billion barrels of oil, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said, enough to meet U.S.
