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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

Original Post ➡️ President Joe Biden designated thousands of acres of federal land in Colorado as a national monument on Wednesday, October 12, 2022. EcoFlight President Joe Biden designated thousands of acres of federal land in Colorado as a national monument on Wednesday, October 12, 2022. Here’s everything you need to know about the president’s ...

Original Post ➡️ Ecoflight | Used by permission New federal protection for public lands in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains commemorates veterans of Army’s 10th Mountain Division DENVER – President Joe Biden on Wednesday designated the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument as the first new national monument of his presidency. This classification will protect 53,804 acres in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. Local stakeholders, ...