Tag: Water
Nestle bottled-water war heats up in Arkansas River Valley
A water grab by Swiss food and beverage behemoth Nestle is playing out in the county commissioner’s chambers of rural Chaffee County, which is considering issuing a 1041 permit to allow the siphoning of spring water for Nestle’s Arrowhead bottled water.
Western Slope officials split on promise of a nuclear-powered oil-shale industry
Recent talk of using nuclear energy to power the oil shale industry on Colorado’s Western Slope has elicited a wide range of reactions from government officials at what would be the epicenter of such a move — from serious doubt to matter-of-fact support.
Supreme Court ruling gives weight to water over energy
Monday’s Colorado Supreme Court decision finding the state’s coal-bed methane gas wells must get well-water permits is yet one more arrow in the quiver of a natural-gas industry claiming increasing environmental and therefore economic persecution.
Hydraulic fracturing controversy over water contamination rages on
In his Jan. 10 column in the Rocky Mountain News, Independence Institute analyst David Kopel significantly misstates the record on the environmental risks posed by the gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing.
Using carefully culled quotations and selected statistics, Kopel asserts "indisputably false facts" in ProPublica's reporting.
In fact, it is his column that is indisputably misleading.
Report: Shell Oil seeks to slurp up Yampa River rights for...
The debate over the best possible use for Colorado’s limited Western Slope water supplies is likely to intensify in light of Tuesday’s Denver Post report that Shell Oil has filed to obtain up to 8 percent of the peak spring runoff in the Yampa River in the northwestern part of the state.
Environmental pitfalls of natural gas drilling endanger water supply
That clarion call to develop energy here on U.S. soil rallied fervid support in the past year when substantial natural gas deposits were identified from Connecticut to Louisiana -- anything but your typical drilling states.
Since burning gas emits 23 percent less greenhouse gas than burning oil, finding new resources here at home targets two important priorities: climate change and energy independence.
But it turns out drilling for gas may not be as clean as burning it. And it may come at the expense of another vital resource: water.
Williams talks about the ‘politics of water’ on Air America
TCI's David O. Williams was a guest on the Jay Marvin Show on AM760 Wednesday to discuss his reporting that water and oil shale don't mix.
Listen to the segment that declares "water is the new oil in the West."
Obama’s excellent Colorado adventure
Obama's coming back to Colorado for at least three different stops on Monday and Tuesday (yup, we’re definitely a swing state folks), but not just for a huge front-range blowout like last time. Instead, Obama will head to the 3rd Congressional District with stops in Pueblo and Grand Junction Monday and then Denver the following day. As the Communications Director for John Salazar's first run for Congress back in 2004, I think these stops are a brilliant move.
Read more of Jeff's commentaries: • Not safe for work computers: At the Interior Dept or otherwise • Matt Damon grills Sarah Palin • Setting aside politics on September 11 • There goes the neighborhood
Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting
Note to the Obama campaign: John McCain handed you political gold when he said we should renegotiate the Colorado River Compact. Failing to use that in a Grand Junction TV spot, or at the very least on radio, would constitute political malpractice of the highest order. This could swing the Western Slope to enough to win state-wide.
Read more of Jeff's commentaries: • Forgetting Sarah Palin • Site sews up Schaffer connections to Abramoff • We did this to Joe Lieberman • Oh, the tangled webs we weave
Renegotiate the Colorado River Compact? McCain says ‘never mind’
So apparently that part about how John McCain called for a renegotiation of the Colorado River Compact — or as he put it, “the compact that is in effect, obviously, needs to be renegotiated over time amongst the interested parties ...” Well, turns out those words were "mistakenly construed." Nah, the Republican presidential candidate doesn’t really want to alienate Colorado voters with such a radical proposition. No, instead McCain wants us to move along. As if, there's nothing to see here, folks.