Feds Reject Permit for Flaming Gorge Pipeline

Well there is some good news to share.  Seems the Green River has been spared an ecological disaster:

February 23, 2012

 Feds Reject Permit for Flaming Gorge Pipeline Threatening Colorado River, Endangered Fish

DENVER— The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today rejected a preliminary permit application by Wyco Power and Water, Inc. to construct a 500-mile water pipeline that would pump more than 250,000 acre-feet of water annually from Flaming Gorge Reservoir to Colorado’s Front Range. 

 

 Summit County Citizens Voice

Energy agency says bid to bring water from Wyoming to Colorado is not ripe

By Bob Berwyn

"SUMMIT COUNTY— The proposal for bringing new water to the thirsty Front Range of Colorado was rejected as “premature” this week by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, subject to a potential rehearing. The original Federal Register notice for the project is online here.

The 560-mile pipeline, formally called the Regional Water Supply Project, could potentially transport up to 250,000 acre feet of water from the Green River Basin in Wyoming to Colorado. It was proposed by water speculator Aaron Million as a way of bringing water to Denver-area suburbs that don’t have sustainable long-term water supply.


After the proposal faltered and languished in the early review stages by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Million suddenly tried to reinvent the pipeline as an energy project, switching the review process to the FERC. . ."

 For more visit:
http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/02/23/feds-reject-flaming-gorge-pipeline-proposal/

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From
BiologicalDiversity.org

February 23, 2012

Feds Reject Permit for Flaming Gorge Pipeline Threatening Colorado River, Endangered Fish

DENVER— The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today rejected a preliminary permit application by Wyco Power and Water, Inc. to construct a 500-mile water pipeline that would pump more than 250,000 acre-feet of water annually from Flaming Gorge Reservoir to Colorado’s Front Range. 

“It’s hard to imagine a worse idea, in this era of global warming, than burning fossil fuels to pump already-imperiled rivers hundreds of miles across mountains to fuel sprawl,” said Taylor McKinnon with the Center for Biological Diversity, which along with coalition partners, intervened in the permitting process to challenge the pipeline proposal back in December. “Today’s decision is a victory for rivers, endangered fish and people — a victory we hope proves fatal for the pipeline proposal.”

For more:  
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2012/flaming-gorge-02-23-2012.html

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