Water
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On the Snake River, Dam’s Natural Allies Seem to Have a Change of Heart. By Felicity Barringer. New York Times. Given enough years and enough losses in court, the political support for the four salmon-killing dams on the lower Snake River (in the state of Washington) may be showing cracks. ########## One point I’d like…
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Idaho groundwater pumpers could lose water. By Matt Christensen. Times-News writer. This is of huge importance in Idaho, politically, economically, environmentally. It began with “a call” for water from two of Idaho’s many trout farms. Most Western states follow the “prior appropriation doctrine” for water rights — the first persons to put the water “to…
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From the Casper Star Tribune, Story about water wells in the Pinedale and Jonah gas fields being contaminated by benzene and other hydrocarbons. Well Probe Points to Trucks. By Whitney Royster. Post 1075
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The Governor of Wyoming killed water regulations passed by a citizen board aimed at curtailing negative effects of coalbed methane water surges in the state. The board insisted the the methane-water increase in quanitity not implicate the quality of the water. Freudenthal claims the board over-reached. Some folks get upset when judges legislate, how about…
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Lawmakers revisit the lower Snake River dam debate and demonstrate the change-up in Congress. It’ll be interesting… Read the Statesman’s article From Western Watersheds Blog: “The Idaho Statesman has an interesting article on a new bill that would study the economics of breaching four of the lower Snake River dams. Idaho’s federal politicians are already fortifying with Idaho economy guru,…
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“KT” has commented extensively on this blog about how Las Vegas is grabbing water from underground for hundreds of miles in all directions so that these environmentally misfit fountains, lakes, and square miles of commerce in the hot desert can continue to grow and grow. Now Ted Williams has written about it in his blog.…