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Posted by Steve Cone on 4:23 PM October 27, 2008
By this ruling, CPA contends the Colorado Supreme Court ignored, if not defied, a United States Supreme Court decision that CPA made a central issue in its legal briefs. CPA showed ALP involves rank water speculation in violation of state law. CPA contended ALP is really not a “water project.” There is no delivery system. There are no uses for the water. There is only a hole in the ground, Nighthorse Reservoir, to which water must be pumped 500 feet at public expense to evaporate, and go to waste. CPA showed that over 100 objectors to the application for the reserved water rights were denied their rights as parties and that as many as 6000 unsuspecting water users might be injured by ALP diversions.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 6:59 AM October 1, 2007
“These are open wounds in our Mother Earth! Who knows how much damage has been done,” said Elouise Brown, president of DDR. “We can only hope that our water and lands have not been badly contaminated and that they clean up after themselves and reclaim the grounds.”
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Posted by Steve Cone on 10:45 AM September 30, 2004
The Citizens Progressive Alliance (CPA) filed a motion in state water court Sept. 27, to dismiss water right applications for the Animas-La Plata project, asking the court to enter a permanent injunction against further construction on the project.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 8:33 AM April 30, 2004
On April 29th Mike Miles announced that he would support a General Accounting Office audit of the Animas-La Plata water project (ALP) in La Plata County due to ALP cost overruns and alleged manipulation of the cost estimates. Miles is a Democratic contender for the US Senate.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 11:12 February 27, 2004
CPA's attorney, Alison "Sunny" Maynard said that in all her 15-year
experience in water court proceedings, she "had never seen such a blatant effort to deny due process to the public over the use of its most valuable and scarce resource. We've been in court for two years and we've been unable to drag one bit of information out of these people. Yet, the public's money is being spent by the truck load on a federal project that doesn't even yet have a water right."
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Posted by Steve Cone on 11:37 PM January 30, 2004
Lawyers for the Animas-La Plata Water Conservancy District have stamped "Top Secret"†on a report on what happened to the tape recorder and tape that failed to record Aug. 14 meeting of the District. "This was a 'The Dog Ate My Homework' excuse from the beginning. ††And now they're claiming even the explanation of how the dog ate the homework is top secret," said Michael Black, spokesman for Taxpayers for the Animas River, a taxpayers watch-dog group that has been opposing the Animas-La Plata project for over 20 years.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 11:41 PM June 26, 2002
All in all, ALP is about as ugly a contrivance for milking the public as ever
designed, one that would make the boys at Enron envious. It begs for a grand jury
investigation. But more immediately, we ask you to take whatever actions are
within your powers to stop BOR from forfeiting the commitments it made to the
public only two years ago in its FSEIS. We also ask that you forward this
information to the President's Council on Environmental Quality for its review and
speedy action. We also ask that CEQ recommend turning management and oversite of
A-LP over to a disinterested party, for the Bureau of Reclamation has clearly
shown its inability to protect the public interest or manage the public's
purse.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 7:11 PM June 7, 2002
An accompanying Statement of Opposition lists 14 reasons why the current
application for water rights should not be granted. These focus on key elements
of the current application in Division 7 water court: That the application fails
to specify points of diversion, places of use or the amounts of water claimed,
required by state law; that the Ute Indians are unable to put the water to
beneficial use; and that the consent decree is illegal, since it permits
non-Indians to take the water claimed under the Indian reserved rights. CPA also
claims that the Utes are barred from claiming reserved rights, in any event, due
to their entry into certain consent decrees in 1950, and for other reasons.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 12:29 PM December 22, 2001
Expose the lie that settlement of Indian water rights and ALP are synonymous.
They are separable. CPA supports settlement of all Indian rights, but water
rights and water projects are separate animals. Project backers have been very
successful in welding the two together for their own enrichment. Interestingly,
the Utes have said they will support A-LP and A-LP only as a solution to their
water right claims. The manner in which Ute claims are settled should be a the
subject of public debate, since the American taxpayer is picking up all the costs.
CPA is simply incredulous in the face of the assertion that the only solution for
the water rights of 3000 people is a $343,000,000 water project, a project which
in the end is guaranteed to cost close to a billion dollars.
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Posted by Steve Cone on 5:55 PM November 9, 2001
In its July 2000 Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for ALP, the
Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) repeatedly cited 55FR9223 as justification for
construction of ALP. That policy established in 1990 by President George Bush,
establishes the framework and principles under which the United States is to
conduct Indian water right negotiations. In signing the bill that created the
policy, President Bush warned, "Careful attention must be paid when Federal
taxpayers are asked to contribute substantially more than they might otherwise pay
as a result of litigation involving the Federal Government's alleged breach of
specific trust responsibilities." Interior, on the watch of then Deputy Secretary
David Hayes, chose, however, to ignore the President's words and the policy
requirements contained in 55FR9223.
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