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Scientists question results of corrosion tests on Yucca Mountain canisters Department of Energy officials said corrosion tests on potential canisters to hold nuclear waste in a federal repository in Nevada's Yucca Mountain are not part of the agency's application to build the repository, but Nevada officials said they may use the corrosion data to challenge the application. Las Vegas Review-Journal; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Water official says Idaho groundwater users are curtailing surface supplies Although the finding that groundwater pumpers had taken water from the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer that rightly belonged to surface-water rights holders made by former Idaho Supreme Court Justice Gerald Schroeder does not carry the weight of law, his recommendation will be used by state water resources director Dave Tuthill to formulate state policy. Twin Falls Times-News; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story N.M., county, city team up on affordable housing effort New Mexico and Santa Fe County and the city pledged to commit $1.2 million for a Workforce Housing Assistance Fund to help workers buy homes in Santa Fe. Santa Fe New Mexican; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana student finds links to cosmic collision, mammoth's disappearance For a high school project, a freshman student in Montana dug into three sites and discovered nanodiamonds and iron micrometeorites -- definitive proof that a meteorite or comet crashed into the Earth about 13,000 years ago, when mammoths disappeared from what is now Montana. Great Falls Tribune; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
Washington tribe reverses vote, OKs Columbia River fish pact The Yakama Tribe approved a pact with the federal government and three other Washington state tribes that provides $900 million in fish restoration funds on the Columbia River in exchange for the tribes' withdrawal from lawsuits over dams operated by the federal government on that river. Yakima Herald; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes to open 2 new casinos in S.E. Idaho The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes plan to open two new casinos on the Fort Hall Reservation in southeastern Idaho, with groundbreaking on the first casino planned for May 15 with a completion date of September; and work scheduled to begin on the second in 2009. Idaho Statesman (Idaho State Journal); May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
Utah group digs in on fight to stop natural gas pipeline Farmers, ranchers, landowners and conservation groups have teamed up to form the "Stop the Ruby Pipeline" coalition in an effort to keep a 42-inch natural gas pipeline proposed between Wyoming and Oregon from being built across three counties in northern Utah. Salt Lake Tribune; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Five of 500 ducks that landed on toxic pond in Alberta survive Syncrude officials vowed to take steps to ensure that sonic cannons needed to scare migrating waterfowl away from toxic tailings ponds at the company's oilsands operations in Alberta would be in place to prevent a repeat of an incident where an estimated 500 ducks landed on the pond and most of them perished. Edmonton Journal; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Ruptured pipeline spews crude oil into Alberta river A pipeline leased to Penn West Energy leaked an estimated 120 barrels of crude oil into the Lesser Slave River and a smaller northern Alberta river on Wednesday. Edmonton Journal; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Winds push N.M. wildfire through containment lines Crews had the Trigo Fire in New Mexico's Manzano Mountains 95 percent contained by Wednesday, but strong winds pushed the fire through the northern containment line on Wednesday. You may have to view an ad to read this article. Albuquerque Journal; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Crews have wildfire near Grand Canyon nearly corralled The Tex-X fire has burned nearly 2,000 acres in Arizona, but crews have thus far kept the wildfire outside of Grand Canyon National Park. Arizona Republic; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Air-quality concerns scale back prescribed burns in Colorado U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management crews curtailed burning operations on Wednesday in Colorado's San Juan Basin after a spike in particulate pollution sparked an air-quality warning. Durango Herald; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Nevada senator apologizes to Utah, Arizona about polygamy remarks The attorneys general of Utah and Arizona were angered by Nevada Sen. Harry Reid's remarks that neither state had acted aggressively to prosecute crimes in polygamous communities, and on Wednesday, Reid called those states' attorneys general and offered to set up a meeting between U.S. Department of Justice officials and them to coordinate enforcement efforts in those communities. Salt Lake Tribune; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
Colorado lawmakers advance bills to rework state education tests Colorado Democrats pushed through legislation that would eliminate some portions of the state's Student Assessment Program, and another that would pare the CSAP back to the minimum requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law. Durango Herald; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
FERC puts hydroelectric dam project in Utah on 'indefinite hold' After Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. told the Division of State Parks and Recreation to reject a request for an easement needed to develop a hydroelectric power project on the east side of Bear Lake, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission put the Hook Canyon project on hold. Salt Lake Tribune; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Expert: Lack of transmission capacity hinders Montana wind-energy effort Gary Seifert, program manager at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, told dozens of Montanans on Wednesday that Montana has the wind-power producing capacity of several states combined, but a lack of transmission capacity has hobbled efforts to develop those projects thus far. Great Falls Tribune; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Potlatch withdraws request to power Idaho plant with waste wood Washington-based Potlatch Corp. has withdrawn its permit application in Idaho to burn waste wood, including materials from construction demolition, to power its pulp and paper mill in Lewiston, Idaho, and said the company was unable to secure a steady supply of waste wood and concerns about mercury emissions for its decision to withdraw the application. Twin Falls Times-News (Lewiston Tribune); May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Blackwater Worldwide in negotiations to build training center in Idaho North Carolina-based Blackwater Worldwide, a private security contractor, is in talks with Idaho Peace Officer Standards & Training Academy to build a training facility in northern Idaho. Coeur d'Alene Press; May 1 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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