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Historic Deal Reopens B.C. Indigenous Territory to Fracking, Promises Land Restoration

March 19, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ EcoFlight After decades of being treated as collateral damage by policy-makers and industry bent on resource extraction, the Blueberry River First Nations will have significantly more say in how extraction proceeds within its territories thanks to a watershed agreement with the British Columbia government. But the deal also means the resumption of ...
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Wilderness Workshop sues over U.S. Forest Service approval of road to large private in-holding

March 18, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ A leading opponent of the Berlaimont Estates project near Edwards wasted little time before mounting a legal challenge to a March 10 U.S. Forest Service decision approving an all-season road to the site.The Wilderness Workshop, based in Carbondale, filed suit this past week in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. to stop the road ...
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Elizabeth Velasco, Perry Will offer bipartisan support for federal Thompson Divide Withdrawal plan

March 16, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Republican state Sen. Perry Will of New Castle has joined up with Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Velasco of Glenwood Springs in issuing a bipartisan letter of support for the Thompson Divide Administrative Withdrawal that’s now under federal review.The proposed federal mineral withdrawal would administratively withdraw 225,000 acres of the Thompson Divide area south of ...
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Lava Ridge resolution advances in House

March 13, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Minidoka National Historic Site is seen beside the Milner-Gooding Canal during an EcoFlight tour Monday, June 13, 2022, out of Twin Falls. The Lava Ridge Wind Project, if allowed, would be just north of what locals call the Hunt Camp.DREW NASH, TIMES-NEWS A resolution opposing the proposed Lava Ridge wind energy ...
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Survivors and descendants of Minidoka incarceration oppose Lava Ridge

February 26, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Minidoka National Historic Site is seen beside the Milner-Gooding Canal during an EcoFlight tour June 13, 2022, out of Twin Falls. The Lava Ridge Wind Project, if allowed, would be just north of what locals call the Hunt Camp.DREW NASH, TIMES-NEWS During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive ...
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HOW NEIGHBORS IN THE BORDERLANDS FOUGHT BACK AGAINST ARIZONA GOV. DOUG DUCEY’S ILLEGAL WALL — AND WON

February 14, 2023 News & Media No Comments
The Biden administration is doing nothing to stop the environmental destruction wrought by Arizona’s construction of a shipping container wall. Original Post ➡️ Michael and Christie Brown resisted putting a barrier around their beloved desert home for years, but the nights were getting too dangerous. It was a question of safety. They needed a fence.The Browns ...
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Gov. Little, Idaho delegation share ‘deep concerns’ about Lava Ridge; Magic Valley legislators sign opposition letter

February 6, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ An EcoFlight tour flies over wind turbines Wednesday, July 21, 2021, during a Lava Ridge Wind Proposal tour flight near Buhl.TIMES-NEWS, FILE PHOTO TWIN FALLS — Idaho lawmakers are raising concerns over the proposed Lava Ridge Wind Project.Hours after six Magic Valley legislators voiced their opposition in a letter to the state’s ...
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Taking on giants: Stop Lava Ridge group to hold informational meeting

February 1, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post Taking ➡️ An EcoFlight tour flies over some existing wind turbines Wednesday, July 21, 2021, during a Lava Ridge Wind Proposal tour flight near Buhl.PAT SUTPHIN, TIMES-NEWS The Bureau of Land Management is accepting comments on the proposed 1,000-megawatt wind energy project, which could put as many as 400 turbines across 114 square ...
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Discussion ready to roll on Crystal River

January 24, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ An image of the Crystal River Valley from an EcoFlight mission in August 2022. The view is downvalley, toward Mount Sopris. A group is exploring a federal designation of wild and scenic for the Crystal River in Gunnison and Pitkin counties. Courtesy of EcoFlight The effort to explore getting a federal designation ...
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Utah Legislature to pledge $2M for ozone fight with EPA

January 24, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Feds set to impose ‘good neighbor’ rule that would require costly emission controls on coal plants in Utah and Wyoming needed to limit ozone pollution in Colorado. Original Post ➡️ (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Bonanza Power Plant, a coal-fired generating station in Uintah County. The plant, and two others in Utah, could ...
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