Utah
March 12, 2010--Water shortages may hit northern Rockies (USA Today)
Much of the nation may be snow-weary, but farmers and ranchers who rely on winter snowpack in the northern Rockies for irrigation during the dry months of the growing season could face water shortages this summer unless more snow arrives soon.
February 26, 2010--Shell Oil walks away from Colorado's last free-flowing river (Summit Daily News)
Shell Oil Co. said Tuesday it is abandoning its quest for water rights from the Yampa River in northwest Colorado to develop oil shale production, citing delays in the project due to the global economic downturn. The Yampa is the last free-flowing river in Colorado, uninterrupted by dams or other diversions.
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 9, 2010--Study: Gains from flooding Grand Canyon short-lived (Durango Herald)
Maintaining sandbars crucial to wildlife in the Grand Canyon would require more frequent high water flows from Glen Canyon Dam that coincide with natural flooding of Colorado River tributaries, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist said last week.
February 7, 2010--Telluride group files legal challenge to Energy Fuels mill water (Montrose Daily Planet)
A Telluride conservation nonprofit filed a legal challenge on January 26 in Montrose District Court to the proposed Energy Fuels (EF) Pinon Ridge yellowcake uranium mill, based on their belief that EF cannot prove they have the capacity to exploit and utilize water beneficially, and that they cannot avoid polluted water discharges from the mill.
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.
September 10, 2009--Proposed uranium mill deeply divides southwestern Colorado communities (Colorado Independent)
Montrose County commissioners delayed a decision on a controversial
uranium mill proposal Wednesday after nearly six hours of public
testimony that underscored deep divisions between longtime mining
families and residents of neighboring Telluride and San Miguel County.
August 20, 2009--Feds award grants for irrigation pipelines (Denver Post)
Federal grants will help irrigation companies in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming curb salt water discharges. Secretary
of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the $11 million in grants for
three irrigation companies in Utah, another in Cortez, Colo., and a
fifth in Eden/Farson, Wyo.
August 18, 2009--Utah critics blast gag order on Nevada water talks (Denver Post)
The Millard County Commission
also is sharpening its criticism of the plan, saying it gives away too
much Utah water and isn't nearly as equitable as the Utah Department of
Natural Resources claims.
August 14, 2009--Las Vegas pipeline delayed under water agreememt (Denver Post)
A growing and thirsty Las Vegas wouldn't be able to begin building a water pipeline from a shared aquifer with Utah until at least 2019 under a draft agreement between Utah and Nevada regulators announced
