Green River

No matter how much water it takes to cool a proposed nuclear power plant near Green River, Utah – the topic of thorny debate in an ongoing regulatory process — the specter of such a facility upwind and just 100 miles from the Colorado border is a necessary evil of energy independence, a Republican Utah [...]

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on Sunday did a good job of painting the big picture in terms of the massive scale of energy resources under the arid ground of western Colorado and eastern Utah in an area dubbed “Energy Alley.”
The 150-mile stretch of Interstate 70 between Rifle, Colo., and Green River, Utah, sits atop [...]

Conservation groups and at least one federal agency are raising serious questions about a water grab for a proposed nuclear power plant near Green River, Utah, according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is already on the record questioning the proposed leasing of up to 24,000 acre feet of the [...]