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Critics of the proposed Pebble mine this week renewed their pressure on a Canadian mining company to drop its investment in the controversial Alaska project.
Even if we end up with a good snow year, the long-term trend is clear: drier and hotter and less predictable.
Left unaddressed, these trends could pose a perfect storm for both municipalities and agricultural producers who depend on healthy flows in our rivers. That’s why a few years ago, the Bureau of Reclamation, municipal utilities, conservationists and other river stakeholders banded together to launch an innovative, market-based program, called the System Conservation Pilot Program (SCPP).
The goal of the pilot program was to answer this question: Would ranchers and farmers, landowners and other water users in the Upper Colorado Basin be willing to be paid for voluntary, temporary reductions in water use — and, by doing so, help shore up water supplies in Lakes Powell and Mead while providing side benefits like increased flows for fisheries?
We are happy to report that the answer is a resounding “yes.”
Anglers and environmentalists say President Donald Trump’s plan to reshape the federal lease approval process for oil and gas is a means to muzzle their concerns.
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