Posts Tagged bureau of reclamation

House approves controversial hydropower bill

By Troy Hooper | 03.08.12 | 1:21 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

The House approved U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton’s bill to streamline small hydropower development processes for canals and ditches today. More…

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White House escalates $1 billion planned New Mexico water complex

By Mikhail Zinshteyn | 10.11.11 | 6:18 pm | More from The New Mexico Independent

The Obama administration today selected a Northern New Mexico water reclamation project as one of a handful of infrastructure public works endeavors to undergo an expedited permit process in the hopes it will lead to faster job growth. More…

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Tipton promises jobs from streamlining small hydro in Colorado

By Troy Hooper | 09.23.11 | 2:49 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

A hydropower bill that U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton introduced this month is intended to create clean energy jobs, but the director of the state chapter of American Rivers More… says the legislation badly misses the mark.
“I don’t know how much it helps hydropower developers. More than anything, it’s another example

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Region)

Salazar’s climate change report signals rough times ahead for the western U.S.

By Scot Kersgaard | 04.25.11 | 3:18 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today released a report More…that assesses climate change risks and how these risks could impact water operations, hydropower, flood control and fish and wildlife in the western United States. The report to Congress, prepared by Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation, represents the first consistent and