|
Wednesday,
Dec. 17 10 a.m. edition |
|
|
|
Page
2 More news from the Rockies |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Community 
Montana DEQ rules coal-fired power plant's permit still good Southern Montana Electric Generation & Transmission won another round on Tuesday in its fight to build a coal-fired power plant near Great Falls when the state Department of Environmental Quality ruled that construction of the project began within the 18-month mandated period for its air-quality permit. Great Falls Tribune; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story N.M. commuters climb aboard Albuquerque-Santa Fe trains Commuter rail service officially begins today between Albuquerque and Santa Fe as the Rail Runner's service expands to Santa Fe. You may have to view an ad to read this article. Albuquerque Journal; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Rocky Mountain Rail rolls out passenger train options The Rocky Mountain Rail Authority's feasibility study of connecting Colorado cities with high-speed passenger service has ruled out extending a line to Winter Park, but would provide service along the Front Range and to Aspen, Steamboat Springs and Breckenridge. Denver Rocky Mountain News; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana Land Board OKs Whitefish land swap Under an agreement approved by the Montana Land Board on Monday, Whitefish philanthropist Michael Goguen will trade 570 acres of his land near Lupfer Road in Whitefish for 435 acres of state land; Goguen also donated $3.1 million to the city of Whitefish and the nonprofit Flathead Gateway Partners for the city's trail project. Flathead Beacon; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Salt Lake County spends $10 million on land for park The Salt Lake County Council approved spending nearly $10 million on an 80-acre tract of land now owned by the LDS Church for a park in Bluffdale. Salt Lake Tribune; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Sales-tax lull hammers Utah Transit Authority Despite an increase in fare revenue this year, the Utah Transit Authority said a projected $14-million drop in sales-tax revenue means some of its lower-performing routes may have to be cut. Salt Lake Tribune; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Utah water agency delays hearing on uranium mill The Utah Division of Water Rights postponed a hearing on Colorado-based Mancos Resources' request to use 800 acre-feet of water from the Green River for a uranium mill proposed near the city of Green River, a move a watchdog group said proved the company isn't yet able to address concerns about the project. Deseret News; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Residents ask Montana county for emergency zoning rules The residents who live near Georgetown Lake in Granite County have asked that Montana county's commission to implement emergency zoning regulations while permanent solutions are studied. Montana Standard; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
Idaho tribe, Avista reach accord on dam relicensing The Coeur d'Alene Tribe and Avista Corp. agreed Tuesday to support a plan for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to issue a single, 50-year license that covers Avista Corp.'s hydroelectric Post Falls dam in Idaho and four dams in Washington's Spokane County. Coeur d'Alene Press; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
N.M. Valles Caldera Trust gets new director Gary D. Bratcher, a former New Mexico economic development secretary, will take over management of the 89,000-acre Valles Caldera National Preserve in the Jemez Mountains on Jan. 4, where he'll work toward the goal of managing the preserve to be economically self-sustaining by 2015. Santa Fe New Mexican; Dec. 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story BLM, Wyoming, Teton County sign off on land swap At a meeting Tuesday, the Teton County Board of Commissioners signed off on the Snake River Corridor Management/Ownership Transfer Plan that will ultimately transfer management of 300 acres of U.S. Bureau of Land Management land along the Snake River to the Wyoming county, and 600 other acres of BLM land to the U.S. Forest Service and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Jackson Hole News & Guide; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana hunters tell of impacts wolves have had At game check stations in northwest Montana this past hunting season, state wildlife officers heard plenty from hunters about wolves, including from one who lost his bull elk to a herd of wolves near Darby. Kalispell Daily Inter Lake; Dec. 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Wolves draw visitors to Yellowstone National Park There's a new category of visitors to Yellowstone National Park that didn't exist 15 years ago -- wolf watchers. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (AP); Dec. 15 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story BLM's Feb. auction includes 16K acres in Colorado county The Bureau of Land Management will auction energy leases on 16,400 acres of land in Colorado's La Plata County at its Feb. 12 auction. Durango Hearld; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Idaho governor asks agencies to slash budgets again Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter asked state agencies to take another look at their budgets and see what they would look like if they were 6 percent smaller in 2010. Idaho Statesman; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Three emerge as top contenders for Colorado U.S. Senate seat As U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar is expected to be nominated today to be the next Interior secretary, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, outgoing state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff and U.S. Rep. Ed Perl mutter are said to be in contention to fill Salazar's Senate seat. Denver Post; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story U.S. completes 500 miles of fence on Mexico border A spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said 500 miles of fence on the U.S. border with Mexico have been built thus far, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said another 100 miles will be built before Jan. 20, when Barack Obama becomes president. Tucson Citizen (AP); Dec. 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
Wyoming lawmakers draft brucellosis bills The Wyoming Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Interim Committee approved draft legislation that would allow the state to pay $8 per head to spay heifers and to pay for fencing and other measures designed to separate cattle from elk or other infected herds to help stop the spread of brucellosis. Casper Star-Tribune; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Utah lawmakers propose $400 million in budget cuts Utah legislators again called for Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. to call a special session to address the state's growing budget shortfall. Salt Lake Tribune; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Utah bill would add water-rights info on real estate sales Utah state Rep. Ben Ferry, R-Corinne, is sponsoring legislation that would require all real estate transaction clearly spell out what water-rights are involved in the deal and require that transfers of the water rights be recorded with county recorders who will then provide that information to the Utah Division of Water Rights and the state engineer. Salt Lake Tribune; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana lawmakers ask for more info on property appraisals Concerns about a dramatic increase in property tax bills have Montana lawmakers considering ways to mitigate those increases, but members of the House Taxation Committee said they weren't yet ready to roll out a specific plan until they could get and review data from each of the state's 56 counties. Billings Gazette; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Arizona lawmakers examine every option to cut costs In order to address Arizona's projected $1.2-billion budget shortfall, lawmakers are considering measures such as requiring state employees to take a couple of days off each month without pay, requiring schools to use textbooks another year and making parents who want their kids in all-day kindergarten to pay tuition. Arizona Daily Sun; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Tower collapse on B.C. resort gondola injures 12 Whistler Blackcomb officials said Tower 4 on the Excalibur Gondola broke in half on Tuesday afternoon, stranding 53 skiers and injuring 12, all of whom were treated and released from a local clinic by Tuesday evening. Vancouver Sun; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Unemployment on the rise in Utah The Utah Department of Workforce Services reported Tuesday that for the year ending in November, the state shed 11,500 jobs, pushing the state's unemployment rate in November to 3.7 percent, still substantially lower than the national rate of 6.7 percent. Salt Lake Tribune; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economist: Montana insulated from national recession Larry Swanson of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West in Missoula said the national recession will have less of an impact on Montana than on other states, and that the recession in the Big Sky State won't be as harsh or as long as that seen nationally. Editor's note: Swanson is the Director of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West of which Headwaters News is a program. NewWest.net; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Railroad execs say layoffs won't affect Wyoming jobs Railroads across the nation are cutting jobs to address seasonal slumps in business as well as the national economic downturn, but Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and Union Pacific Railroad officials said they did not anticipate any layoffs in Wyoming. Casper Star-Tribune; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story California solar company picks N.M. for new plant New Mexico offered California-based Signet Solar an incentive package to build its first North American manufacturing plant in the state, with construction on the Belen plant scheduled to begin next year, and operations projected to begin in 2010, bringing 600 new jobs to the state. You may have to view an ad to read this article. Albuquerque Journal; Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Japanese airline to test camelina fuel made in Montana Officials of Montana-based Sustainable Oils said Japan Airlines plans a one-hour flight out of Toyko next month with a plane fueled in part with a blend made from Sustainable Oils camelina. Billings Gazette (AP); Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story N.J. company considers Idaho for natural-gas power plant LS Power of New Brunswick, N.J. has secured an option on 40 acres of land in Idaho's Power County, and is considering the site for a new natural-gas power plant, although LS Power officials said they're just beginning their investigation into development of the project. Twin Falls Times-News (Idaho State Journal); Dec. 17 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Headwaters
News is a program of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West
at the University of Montana. |
