River Management Law Conference Kicks off Week of Education, Training and Networking
Posted: February 14, 2014 Filed under: Paddlesports, Rivers and Waterways | Tags: Colorado, Denver, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Managing Rivers in Changing Climes: Training Tomorrow’s River Professionals, National Environmental Policy Act, National Wild & Scenic River System, Risa Shimoda, River Management Society, RMS, The River Management Society Leave a comment
Legislative and Environmental Experts will Offer Management Tools and Blueprints
The River Management Society (RMS) announces its biennial education and training symposium, Managing Rivers in Changing Climes: Training Tomorrow’s River Professionals April 15-18, 2014 and its first time partnership with CLE International, producer of River Management Law an education conference April 14th. They will take place at the Renaissance Denver Hotel, Denver, Colorado.
Legal experts at the stand-alone Management Law Conference April 14th, led by Program Chair Lori Potter (Kaplan, Kirsch & Rockwell) will address important river protection issues and the types of river use that frame the challenges and opportunities facing communities throughout the West. “We are excited to partner with CLE for extensive training experience,” notes River Management Society Executive Director Risa Shimoda. “The future of our rivers will be prescribed by actions of those who own, use and manage them and RMS appreciates the opportunity to dig into the complexity of river management via this esteemed team of presenters.”
”To complement the CLE conference RMS’ Legal and Legislative track will review legislative and administrative water protection
Wild and Scenic Red River in Kentucky’s Clifty Wilderness, within the Red River Gorge. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
tools by representatives of federal, state and environmental organizations,” continues Shimoda. “Veterans of river-related legal matters will discuss issues related to water rights, appropriation and conservation.”
RMS will offer the first public workshop on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Form 80, and a ‘FERC 101’ overview of the hydropower licensing process. Registrants can learn how to write National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) assessments and comment on Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) more effectively, and conduct Wild and Scenic Rivers Section 7 determinations. They will hear about successes and plans for sustainability from emerging watershed partnership groups, and about flood prevention, mitigation and recovery from municipal leaders such as keynote Mayor Karl Dean from Nashville, TN. Representatives from private, state and federal organizations will offer tips regarding how to find funding for river projects.
For details on the CLE Conference, visit http://www.cle.com. To view CLE conference information as well as the Legal and Legislative and other tracks Managing Rivers in Changing Climes: Training Tomorrow’s River Professionals visit http://www.river-management.org.
The River Management Society (RMS) is a national non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization dedicated to supporting professionals who study, manage and protect North America’s Rivers. RMS maintains the only comprehensive resource for packing human waste out from rivers; a growing library of ‘handy’ hydropower license summaries; Prepare to Launch! Guidelines for Designing and Building Launches for Carry-in Watercraft and a Career Center featuring a live feed of river-related professional opportunities.
For more information, contact Risa Shimoda, +1 301 502 6548, rms@river-management.org.
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Colorado River Protection Coalition Intervenes Against Flaming Gorge Pipeline
Posted: December 17, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Center for Biological Diversity, Colorado, Colorado River, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, Green River, Sierra Club, Wyoming 1 CommentFriends of the Poudre River!
Please see the press release below. We are working hard with great coalitions to protect the Poudre River as well as stop the ridiculous Flaming Gorge Pipeline. Please see Save the Poudre’s quote below:
“The Flaming Gorge Pipeline would be a flaming disaster for Colorado,” said Gary Wockner of Save the Poudre: Poudre Waterkeeper. “The Pipeline would be a devastating step backwards for water supply policy and river protection in Colorado and the Southwest U.S. — our coalition will work as long and hard as it takes to stop this project.”
Thank you for your amazing support!
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Colorado River Protection Coalition Intervenes Against Flaming Gorge Pipeline Denver, CO – Today a coalition of 10 conservation groups from Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Arizona — the Colorado River Protection Coalition — moved to intervene in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) review of the Regional Watershed Supply Project (a.k.a., the “Flaming Gorge Pipeline”). FERC is currently evaluating a preliminary permit application for the Flaming Gorge Pipeline from Wyco Power and Water Inc. FERC allows members of the public with a stake in projects to intervene in preliminary permit proceedings, and the Colorado River Protection Coalition, represented by Earthjustice, has called upon FERC to deny the permit on numerous grounds. “The Flaming Gorge Pipeline would be one of the biggest, most environmentally damaging water projects in the history of the western United States,” said McCrystie Adams of Earthjustice, the Coalition’s lead attorney. “The Pipeline would devastate the Green River, one of the West’s last great rivers and a sanctuary for native fish and wildlife, and severely harm the Colorado River downstream.” In its intervention comments, the Colorado River Protection Coalition asserted that the Flaming Gorge Pipeline is extremely unlikely to be permitted because it would likely violate the Endangered Species Act, would adversely affect four national wildlife refuges, and part of the project would be located in a U.S. Forest Service roadless area. The Coalition also argued that the permit should be denied because the applicant failed to meet various requirements during a previous attempt at permitting a nearly identical project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Further, the Coalition asserted that the Pipeline is an extremely environmentally damaging water supply project that would irrevocably harm the Green and Colorado Rivers, not a “hydropower project,” and thus FERC is not the appropriate agency to lead federal review of the proposal. “The Flaming Gorge Pipeline would severely harm the Wyoming landscape it crosses,” said Steve Jones of the Wyoming Outdoor Council. “Our state’s heritage, wildlife, and economy are dependent on protecting roadless and wilderness areas.” “Four endangered fish — the Colorado pikeminnow, humpback chub, razorback sucker, and bonytail chub — are dependent on the water this pipeline proposes to drain out of the Green and Colorado Rivers,” said Taylor McKinnon of the Center for Biological Diversity in Flagstaff, Arizona. “The pipeline would spell disaster for those fish and the river ecosystems we and they depend on. It’s a foolish proposal in the face of global warming and projected declines in river flows.” “The Green River flows through Utah’s largest roadless area, provides 40 percent of the water entering the Colorado River at Lake Powell each year, and supports a world-famous trout fishery averaging 6,000 – 8,000 fish per mile” said Zach Frankel, executive director of the Utah Rivers Council. “This catastrophic proposal would not only mar these treasures, it would forever alter life in Utah.” The applicant previously sought a permit for the Pipeline from a different federal agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). In July of 2011, the Corps terminated its review of the project because the applicant missed multiple deadlines and did not provide information requested by the Corps. A few months later, the applicant redesigned the project to include some incidental hydropower components and requested review through FERC. Despite the modifications, the project remains a huge energy hog — at least nine air-polluting natural gas-fired pumping stations would be required to pump the water uphill across Wyoming and over the Continental Divide. Wyco’s president has acknowledged that pumping the water uphill would use more energy than the project would create through hydropower. “We know this project would burn more energy than it produces,” said John Spahr of the Sierra Club. “Claiming it is a hydropower project is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to make an end-run around federal law.” Since its inception, the extremely controversial Flaming Gorge Pipeline has met with great opposition in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. The water would go to the Front Range of Colorado which is projected to double in population in the next 50 years. Colorado is already a parched state with severely depleted rivers while the majority of the water in Colorado’s cities is used to keep lawns green for three months in the hot, dry summer across sprawling suburban landscapes. Duane Short of Biodiversity Conservation Alliance noted, “The Coalition believes that Colorado and other western citizens are beginning to realize that unbridled consumption of water from our rivers and aquifers will leave our precious water resources depleted leading to even more severe water shortages for our children and grandchildren. We hope the public will work with us to prevent this shortsighted and irresponsible water grab.” “The Flaming Gorge Pipeline would be a flaming disaster for Colorado,” said Gary Wockner of Save the Poudre: Poudre Waterkeeper. “The Pipeline would be a devastating step backwards for water supply policy and river protection in Colorado and the Southwest U.S. — our coalition will work as long and hard as it takes to stop this project.” This Coalition’s intervention is one of several being filed by public interest groups and local communities. Over a hundred public comments urging FERC to deny the preliminary permit have already been filed before the Dec. 19th deadline. Comments are posted on FERC’s website here: http://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/docket_search.asp (search for Docket Number: P-14263). The Colorado River Protection Coalition’s comments are posted here: http://savethepoudre.org/documents/Sierra-Club-et-al-Motion-to-Intervene-FERC-Project-No-P-14263-000.pdf A map of the pipeline’s proposed 550 mile route across Wyoming and down through Colorado is here: http://savethepoudre.org/documents/RWSP-Overview-map-12-15-2011.pdf |
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