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FERC finds Flaming Gorge pipeline application deficient, raises jurisdictional questions

One version of a proposed 500-plus-mile water pipeline from southwestern Wyoming to Colorado’s Front Range was dealt a blow by a federal regulatory agency that found the application deficient on Wednesday.

State skewered for spending taxpayer money to study pricey, private water...

Members of the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) today voted to spend an initial $72,000 to form a task force to study the feasibility of two separate proposals to pipe water out of the Green River in southwest Wyoming to Colorado’s Front Range.

Pricey Wyoming pipeline project ratchets up water worries along Colorado’s Front...

It’s not exactly Perrier-pricey, but pretty damn close, according to opponents of the massive proposed Flaming Gorge pipeline project that would pump water out of the Green River in southwest Wyoming and suck it back over the Continental Divide to Colorado’s Front Range.

Colorado awash in water controversy as activists rally to oppose projects,...

Water activists around the region – from Southwest Colorado to Southwest Wyoming to downtown Denver – continued to apply pressure on regulators this week on a variety of critical issues such as opposing the proposed Flaming Gorge Pipeline, backing the Clean Water Act and forcing more scrutiny of uranium mining near the Dolores and San Miguel Rivers.

Colorado water: agriculture, people and ecosystems compete for a limited supply

According to speakers at a water forum last week, Colorado faces a difficult--if not a dismal--water future.
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