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Posted by Steve Cone on 2:19 PM October 19, 2008 CST
"The Animas-La Plata water project is being built to fulfill the water rights settlement of the two Indian tribes that live in Colorado – the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe." So say the promoters of the Project; unfortunately, there was no consideration for the "settlement," because the Utes have never had a valid claim for water.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 6:59 AM November 8, 2007
“You don’t see a big coal-fired power plant in Beverly Hills and Westchester [County, N.Y.] and Grosse Point, Mich.,” Goodell said. “They put them in places where people can’t afford to fight them, where they’re desperate for jobs, where you don’t have environmental communities organized to fight them. They’re always in poor regions. Nobody else would tolerate them.
“They use that sort of economic blackmail – ‘We’ll bring you jobs, so please allow us to pollute your air and cook the planet for the next 50 years’.”
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Posted by Steve Cone on 8:02 AM October 9, 2007
The Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe is opposed to the Environmental Impact Statement for Desert Rock, General Counsel Pete Ortego said, because “we didn’t feel that the EIS dealt with the cumulative impacts, given that there are so many other potential polluters out here.”
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Posted by Steve Cone on 7:59 AM October 1, 2007
''We are tired of the roadblocks and barriers being put up to our people's sovereignty,'' said Alfred Bennett of Dooda Desert Rock. ''Navajo leaders are taking corporate money to poison our land, degrade our air and deplete our water.''
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Posted by Steve Cone on 6:59 PM September 24, 2007
So how did Interior determine "that there is likely to be sufficient water"?
Take two logical statements, combine them into illogic, and you can make water — at least if you're the Interior Department.
Logical Statement 1: The lower the evaporation from the surface of reservoirs in the Colorado River basin, the more liquid water in the system. No argument there.
Logical Statement 2: The lower the levels of the reservoirs in the Colorado River basin, the less surface area there is to suffer from evaporation.
So, the reservoirs are smaller and thus they lose less water, and therefore, there is more water available. Believe it or not, that's how our Interior Department determined that there was water available for this New Mexico pipeline.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 6:59 AM September 24, 2007
It is insulting to us, the Navajo People, that KNME arrogantly depicted Navajos as one great monoculture walking in lockstep, even when it comes to a massive Federal water project that we fear will dry up the San Juan River, harm our land and further disrupt our lives and traditional values. Clearly, the real purpose of this project—despite KNME's willingness to ignore key issues, is to provide water for massive energy projects, urban and other development on and off the reservation, part of an area known as the National Energy Sacrifice Area, exactly what happened with the last project pitched to Congress to "help the Navajos," the Navajo Dam.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 8:59 AM September 3, 200767
In thirty years as a public school teacher I have come to rely on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting Service [“CPB/PBS”] for diverse presentations constituting an invaluable educational resource. However, I am deeply disturbed by KNME TV’s recent production and repeated airing of “The Water Haulers” – a fake documentary which misrepresents and distorts the truth about an issue of critical importance to the future of the southwestern United States.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 7:00 AM September 2, 2007
The Desert Rock Energy Project is a proposed 1500 megawatt power plant planned for the Navajo Nation in northwest New Mexico. Desert Rock would be the third major coal-fired facility within a 15 mile radius in the San Juan Basin. The Project would accelerate environmental degradation in the Four Corners, a National Sacrifice Area notorious for runaway energy development and lax environmental oversight.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 6:59 AM August 8, 2007
Steve Cone of San Juan Citizens Alliance said Domenici is “clearly a very small man, attempting to exact an
extraordinarily large commitment from nominee Nussle in the form of a promise that he will betray the heart of OMB’s weighty obligations under the longstanding Criteria & Procedure policy.”
“As a prerequisite to confirmation, Domenici demands that rather than adhere to sensible fiscal guidelines under the C&P, Nussle promise that OMB forsake established policy and expose federal taxpayers to many billions of dollars of liability in the form of settlements of Indian water claims.”
Domenici’s funding plan is opposed by Robert Johnson, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, and Patrick Ragsdale, director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Colorado River Board also has questioned the fairness of providing the Navajo-Gallup project a priority position to receive up to one-half of all funds designated for deposit into the new settlements fund.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 6:56 PM July 16, 2007
The wizards of the western water world are working to create a new reality and a bleak future for the San Juan River. In a modern-day miracle of grandiose proportions, development interests in New Mexico and Colorado have engaged the scientifically compromised Bureau of Reclamation to divine that flows of the Colorado River system actually exceed expectations. And they have identified just enough water to foist their latest scheme on the unwitting taxpayers of this country.
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