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Pipeline meetings will begin this week

Meetings explain Southern Delivery System, give public the chance to comment on plans.

By CHRIS WOODKA THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN

A series of meetings over the next two weeks will give the public the opportunity to learn more about the draft environmental impact statement issued by the Bureau of Reclamation for the Southern Delivery System and to comment on those plans....

http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1206856800/3 

Overflow from drilling near Parachute has left behind a "waterfall" of frozen gunk and a huge erosion deposit.

By Nancy Lofholm The Denver Post

 "Garden Gulch, a remote ravine north of the town of Parachute, has been the site of four spills and leaks from oil and gas drilling in the past five months.... "

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8696987 

Get a load of this dam project!

Lodge owner [and TU Staffer] Brian Kraft leads the charge against a mine that threatens the Bristol Bay fishery. ".... According to documents submitted by the mining company....  the pit would be roughly two miles by three miles in size. In the course of mineral extraction, the operation would generate an estimated 2.6 billion tons of waste rock. In order to hold back this waste, the company would have to construct of series of five dams and embankments. Eventually, one of the embankments would be 4.3 miles long and 740 feet high, and another earthen dam would stretch for 2.9 miles and rise to 700 feet high. These structures would be bigger than the Hoover or Grand Coulee dams, and would, in fact, dwarf the Three Gorges Dam in China—presently the world’s largest. All this digging and construction would occur in one of Alaska’s most seismically active areas and at the headwaters of its finest, wildest salmon and trout fishery....:

Read Tim Bristol's full article from American Angler magazine: http://americanangler.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=521&Itemid=81

Pipeline project stirs attention in Ark Valley

Public has until April 29 to comment on Southern Delivery System evaluation.

"One problem with the EIS, noted by Drew Peternell, director of Trout Unlimited’s Colorado Water Project, is that it measures all of the alternatives against a no-action alternative, which Colorado Springs revised in 2007."
http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1206252000/3
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By CHRIS WOODKA THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN

Roan fight seeks more muscle

"The sportsmen's group, a consortium spearheaded by Trout Unlimited and the National Wildlife Federation, are campaigning for an additional 7,000 acres to protect threatened Colorado River cutthroat trout habitat in two watersheds excluded from the Ritter recommendation."
by Charlie Meyers - The Denver Post