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Posted by Steve Cone on 8:00 AM October 9, 2007
** Dine Power Authority is attempting to amend federal legislation to divert basin water from the long-term Navajo NIIP to M&I uses, including power production. Since this involves a controversial change in the application of a massive quantity of legally apportioned water, its broader implications - including the defacto uncertainty of sufficient water supplies for this project - should be clearly identified in final EIS. All San Juan (and Colorado River) basin water users have an interest and some stake in this modification of application.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 6:59 AM October 9, 2007
The Desert Rock Project is an interconnected action and cumulative effect with the Navajo Gallup Water Supply project. As indicated in a July 23, 2007 email from David Campbell, U.S. Department of Interior and to Brian Millsap, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Project is an earmarked use for water from the Navajo Gallup Water Supply project. Indeed, the Project can not occur without this water. The EIS, therefore, must examine the impact of the Project in relationship to the Navajo Gallup Water Supply project and how both will impact listed species in light of the cumulative impact of climate change which is certain to reduce water levels in the San Juan River.
The EIS must also take into account the fatal flaws in the U.S. Department of Interior hydrologic determination. The determination concludes that sufficient water is available for the Navajo Gallup Water Supply project because evaporative loss has been and will continue to be lessened by the reduction in surface area caused by lower reservoir levels. However, it fails to account for the fact that lower reservoir levels are themselves a product of decreased water in the river basin. The loss of water that results in decreased evaporation more than offsets any gains by decrease evaporation. The BIA has an independent obligation to consider the flawed hydrologic underpinninings of the DOI determination.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 7:01 PM July 18, 2007
There is no way to mitigate for the spewed filth that will impede vision and impact visual resources. You cannot put a price tag on the misery of those forced to suffer from crippling asthma or chronic emphysema. But for Project proponents, all those respiratory ailments and lung cancer deaths to come are simply corporate “externalities” – collateral damage that cannot and will not be mitigated.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 7:01 PM July 16, 2007
The New Mexico Senators, the State of New Mexico, and the Navajo Nation spoke at the Hearing with one voice to vilify the Office of Management and Budget [“OMB”], which in Shirley’s words, “seeks to impose an overly restrictive interpretation of the Administration’s criteria and procedures for participating in this settlement. In particular, OMB apparently seeks to limit the federal contribution for this water rights settlement to their assessment of the monetary liability of the United States if it is sued by the Navajo Nation.” What Shirley and these New Mexico politicians fail to acknowledge is that these “criteria and procedures” (which will be treated in some depth below) form the backbone of a longstanding policy designed to protect the interests of the taxpaying public while honoring the Federal Government’s trust obligations to the tribes. OMB is obligated to provide financial justification for the Project based on these “criteria and procedures”. Ironically (or maybe quite predictably), when OMB tries to exercise the proper budgetary oversight and restraint, they are excoriated by the Committee’s Chairman and Ranking Member, the Navajo Nation, and, of course, their clients – the water development interests. Apparently, it is the intention of the Project promoters to sidestep or subvert the purposes of this Department of the Interior [“DOI”] policy, and by so doing cow the OMB and avoid the scrutiny this Project so richly deserves.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 6:59 PM July 16, 2007
Despite the New Mexico senators’ attempts to fast-track S1171, The Criteria & Procedures of 55FR9223 must be implemented in coordination with the Department of Justice and the Office of Management and Budget, in order to ensure that Federal Trust responsibilities are honored. The 55FR9223 Policy includes provisions for an economic evaluation with a high level of assurance that the Public’s money is being well spent. The Criteria & Procedures of 55FR9223 represent a safeguard against fiscal waste and promote the negotiation of a just settlement for all parties.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 6:58 PM July 16, 2007
The Biological Assessment, Appendix G of the DEIS, prepared by Ecosphere Environmental Services in Farmington, confirms that increased mercury contamination due to emissions from Desert Rock is likely to adversely affect the two endangered species.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 2:57 AM December 20, 2004
*** The federal government’s penchant for servicing corporate interests at the expense of public health is manifest in the flawed modeling scheme used to estimate air pollution impacts of the proposed Project. Air pollution modeling now in use supports the unrestrained growth and pure-profit motives of the energy extraction and power development interests in the Basin. Current air pollution monitoring techniques are inadequate, intentionally haphazard, and downright deceptive. This would be laughable if it was not so tragic. Such bad-science modeling generates data driven by preordained results rendered in deference to the agenda of the Basin’s energy industry. Is there anyone so naive as to actually believe that public input is taken seriously in the NEPA process, when our top agents and officials are joined at the hip to industry executives and brazenly provide cartes blanches to energy corporations?
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Posted by Steve Cone on 2:57 AM December 18, 2004
Questions posed, but never answered in the Romer/Schoettler Charade
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Posted by Steve Cone on 2:56 AM December 18, 2004
DOI's Bennett Raley's Congressional Testimony on ALP Construction:
"In summary, there is no single reason why the construction cost estimate for the Project increased from $337.9 million in 1999 to $500 million in 2003."
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Posted by Steve Cone on 2:56 AM December 17, 2004
I anticipated that the opponents of the Animas-La Plata Project would throw up their hands and declare victory over the scaled-back Animas-La Plata Project. Despite the major concessions agreed to by proponents of the Animas-La Plata Project, that is not the case. The opponents would have the Federal Government continue to conduct repetitious environmental studies, studies which have already conservatively cost tens of millions of dollars. The opponents, claiming to be friends of the Ute Indian Tribes, have threatened to litigate the Animas-La Plata Project for the next forty years.
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