Idaho Statesman Editorial - 11/23/08
This month's elections finally offer a glimmer of optimism to anyone passionate about saving Idaho's wild salmon. Considering the continued plight of the salmon - and the political gridlock at the root of their peril - it feels good to feel hopeful.
Wall St. Journal - by Ben Casselman
Sunday, John Podesta, who is helping to lead Mr. Obama's transition team, singled out the Utah leases as one decision the Obama administration might try to reverse. "They want to have oil and gas drilling in some of the most sensitive, fragile lands in Utah that they're going to try to do right as they [are] walking out the door. I think that's a mistake," Mr. Podesta said on "Fox News Sunday."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122636586468315907.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
From KKTV.com Reporter: Rosie Barresi
The owners say they'll be saving 40,000 gallons of water a year with the waterless urinals, but they cost more than $4,000 compared to just a few hundred dollars for a regular urinal.
One of the owners of the Trinity Brewing Company, Jason Yester, says it's people, planet then profit. "Planet we think is extremely important," said Yester.
Grand Junction Sentinel -
SILT — A geological consultant says increased methane in domestic wells near natural gas development in Garfield County is part of a much larger problem of drilling-related water contamination that’s just starting to come to light.“The tip of the iceberg is emerging,” Geoffrey Thyne told residents at a meeting in Silt on Thursday night.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2008/11/20/112108_3a_methane.html
Greeley Tribune Online
Officials say the plan helps ensure that Greeley will have a healthy and sufficient water supply in the future and continues the city’s 100-year history of water conservation. It outlines current programs that will save more than 3,000 acre-feet of water by 2030 through ongoing rebates, water-wise landscaping ordinances, system leakage reduction and regulatory measures, said Jon Monson, director of the water and sewer department.
The EPA said the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP) "will have substantial and unacceptable impacts to aquatic resources of national importance."
Ouray County Newspapers November 21, 2008 Samantha Tisdel Wright
It's not just the cities downstream in the Colorado River watershed that have cast a larcenous eye upon the pristine water of the San Juans. Sprawling Front Range Colorado communities are equally thirsty and greedy, often exhibiting what Mueller called a "buy it and dry it" mentality when it come to water rights.
http://www.ouraynews.com/Articles-i-2008-11-21-187926.112113_CRWCD_board_rep_warns_of_water_call.html
With water shortages a constant, Westerners are looking at wacky (and not so wacky) ways to squeeze more water out of the sky and land. High Country News -
Wall St. Journal Online An Armada of Tub Toys Sets Sail in New Research Discipline, 'Flotsam Science,' and Helps Unravel Enduring Planetary Mysteries
Consequently, Dr. Behar and his colleagues at the University of Colorado this past August released 90 yellow rubber ducks into the melt water flowing down a chasm in the largest of Greenland's 200 glaciers -- the Jakobshavn Isbrae -- which has been thinning rapidly since 1997...
Editorial - By The Denver Post
Congress should revisit whether a controversial natural gas drilling method pollutes groundwater in Colo. and elsewhere....Specifically, Congress ought to repeal the exemption that allows hydraulic fracturing to escape regulation by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
