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Monday, August 7, 2006
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Denver Business Journal: "The nation's two visions of the West -- a place of scenic vistas, hunting, hiking and recreation as well as the location of large, relatively untapped natural gas reservoirs -- are colliding, oil and gas operators said Monday. 'Federal land management is imposing requirements that limit access to the reserves in the Rocky Mountain West,' said Duane Zavadil, government affairs specialist with Denver-based Bill Barrett Corp. Zavadil said a study of limits on where, when and how to drill and operate wells on federal lands in Utah indicated that the rules effectively cut natural gas production by 80 percent per acre compared to wells on private lands in the state. Zavadil spoke at the Monday session of the annual Colorado Oil & Gas Association conference. About 2,000 people are expected to attend the three-day conference and investment forum, which is held in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists and the Denver Geophysical Society."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
6:15:46 PM 
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The Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District opposed the rotational crop management bill (HB1124) from this year's legislative session. Here's an article from the Pueblo Chieftain with some details on the science behind rotating crops. They write, "'There were no studies on it,' said Lower Ark General Manager Jay Winner. 'If you're going to have rotational fallowing, there has to be some science behind it.' The Lower Ark district is promoting a plan to combine the water resources of valley ditch companies to lease water to cities in the future. The Lower Ark district is willing to pay up to $500,000 to organize a company that represents ditch interests, run by representatives from the ditch companies - not the district, Winner said. The district could also help with legal expenses in water rights change cases that would be needed, he said...
"Farmers on different ditch systems would be able to lease some of their water by fallowing part of their land, making their water rights more valuable. At the same time, municipal users seeking to lease water would have a reliable source, Winner said. In contrast, he sees potential abuse under HB1124, as cities use it to sew up agricultural rights for years, effectively drying up the land...
"Winner and [Mike Bartolo, director of the Colorado State University Research Center at Rocky Ford] have talked about a concept to explore what happens to land taken out of production for years at a time. The Lower Ark district would contribute a 10-acre piece of ground it owns under the Rocky Ford Ditch. The CSU research center has farmed the property under a lease for more than 50 years. CSU researchers would take portions of the ground (or equivalent acreage) out of production for one, two and three years, sampling the soil and counting weed seed samples, Bartolo said."
Category: Colorado Water
7:17:25 AM
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Colorado Springs Gazette: "Federal officials have deep-sixed an idea floated by Pueblo to dam Fountain Creek. But a proponent of the idea says if a dam isn't the answer, what is?[...]
"The dam concept is not among options under study by the Bureau of Reclamation for Colorado Springs Utilities' Southern Delivery System, which proposes to pump water from Pueblo Reservoir. The bureau will decide which alternative is best before allowing the pipeline project to be built. But Pueblo has pushed the dam idea as a way to regulate creek flows so sediment doesn't clog its levee system designed to prevent flooding. The Army Corps of Engineers, which is in charge of Fountain Creek, issued a letter July 14 in response to Utilities' request for information about the dam concept. In it, the corps said it stood by 1981 studies that rejected a dam because of cost and disruption of land and highways. The best plan, it said, is to rely on Pueblo's levees for flood control."
Category: Colorado Water
7:03:59 AM
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2006
John Orr.
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