Utah
July 14, 2010--Report: Climate change to have major impacts on Western water (Aspen Times)
Of all the current and future impacts of climate change, threats to water resources may be the most painful in the American West, according to a new report published Monday.
April 22, 2010--Utah wilderness emerges as solution to dust storms (Durango Telegraph)
Yet another winter has been dusted in Southwest Colorado. Durango is again weathering dust storms that are accelerating run-off and denuding the region’s snowpack. However, Southeast Utah could be riding to Southwest Colorado’s rescue. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is hoping that designating wilderness in canyon country could help keep future dust storms at bay.
April 17, 2010--Dust in snow causes early melting in region's high country (Colorado Springs Gazette)
For the second year in a row, heavy winds out of the south and west have coated the mountains – with a layer of reddish-brown dust from the deserts of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. The dust absorbs heat from sunlight and melts the snow more quickly. Snowpack in the Arkansas River Basin, 107 percent of average three weeks ago, was at 87 percent Friday.
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.
