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BREAKING: Unaweep Canyon Climbing Protected for Now

November 7, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Xcel’s Reversal on Energy Project Protects Canyon; Conserves Climbing EnvironmentOn November 2, Xcel Energy withdrew its plan for a massive energy development project in Unaweep Canyon, Colorado, citing “multiple concerns with the potential site.” As we noted in June, Access Fund holds conservation easements on property that the Western Colorado Climbers’ Coalition (WCCC) owns in ...
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Hart: A major milestone for the Thompson Divide

November 7, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ An aerial view of the Thompson Divide region south of Glenwood Springs.EcoFlight photo In mid-October Interior Secretary Deb Haaland initiated a process to administratively withdraw 225,000 acres of the Thompson Divide from future oil and gas leasing and mining for the next 20 years. For everyone who has fought to protect the ...
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The company behind the White Mesa uranium mill says it’s trying to be a good neighbor

November 4, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Bruce Gordon/EcoFlightLakewood, Colorado-based Energy Fuels operates the White Mesa uranium mill near Blanding, Utah, seen in this aerial shot taken on Oct. 22, 2022. Executives of a Colorado company that runs a controversial uranium mill in rural Utah say opponents of the mill don’t understand their safety measures and how vital the ...
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Xcel backs out of Unaweep project

November 3, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Christopher Tomlinson/The Daily SentinelA view provided during a flyover by the nonprofit group EcoFlight shows where a proposed pumped storage hydroelectric power facility was to have been located in Unaweep Canyon along Colorado Highway 141. A day after Xcel Energy won a preliminary permit to begin a feasibility study on a proposed ...
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Conservation Groups Wary of Central ID Mine Proposal

November 3, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Stibnite mine project is located in portions of the Payette and Boise national forests. (EcoFlight) A proposed mining operation in central Idaho is raising concerns about possible damage to nearby fish and wildlife habitat. The U.S. Forest Service has released a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Stibnite Gold Project, an open-pit ...
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Xcel Energy ends controversial plan for Unaweep Canyon hydropower project

November 2, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The move comes a day after Colorado’s largest electric company received federal permission to study the $1.6B project Unaweep Canyon near Grand Junction, Aug. 24, 2022. Xcel Energy wants to build a pumped-storage hydropower project in the canyon. (Hugh Carey, The Colorado Sun / EcoFlight)Xcel Energy has killed its plan to build ...
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Xcel Energy’s controversial Unaweep Canyon pumped-storage hydro project gets preliminary federal permit

November 1, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has accepted Xcel’s application for a preliminary permit to study a massive hydropower project in Unaweep Canyon, where residents are promising a fight. Unaweep Canyon near Grand Junction, Aug. 24, 2022. Xcel Energy wants to build a pumped-storage hydropower project in the canyon. (Hugh Carey, The Colorado ...
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Ute Mountain Ute peace walk brings awareness to uranium mill’s operations and health impacts

October 25, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Ute Mountain Ute tribal members and community members join the spiritual walk against White Mesa Uranium Mill. (Photo by Tim Peterson/Grand Canyon Trust) The Ute Mountain Ute tribe in White Mesa, Utah, led a rally and spiritual walk this past Saturday to protest a radioactive waste dump and other activities at a ...
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Western tribes march against uranium mill in southeast Utah

October 23, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Annual march grew over last year; mill owners defend operations as safe The White Mesa uranium mill on Saturday as seen from EcoFlight. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald) A march against the White Mesa Mill Saturday in Utah was an energetic mix of Native American tribes, environmental groups and concerned citizens from the region. ...
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‘Nature has no borders’: why Americans are worried about Canadian mines

October 13, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Concerns are growing about the downstream impacts of Canadian mines. So much so that an American non-profit commissioned planes to give journalists and community leaders a bird’s-eye view of two sites It was the weirdest commute I’ve ever had. In September, I drove almost 380 kilometres from Vancouver, B.C., southeast to Wenatchee, ...
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