Nuclear Power In Colorado: Does The State Have Enough Water To Support Nuclear Plants?

The Colorado Independent:

Some water experts warn the upper Colorado River is an endangered species if current residential growth patterns and water consumption patterns continue along the state's Front Range, and they're increasingly concerned proposed energy production on the Western Slope will accelerate its demise.

Ken Neubecker, president of the state counsel of Colorado Trout Unlimited and a member of the Colorado River Basin Roundtable, points out that already 64 percent of the upper Colorado River above Hot Sulfur Springs in Grand County is diverted across the Continental Divide to the Front Range population centers of the state.

Read the whole story: The Colorado Independent

Comments

[Averal]

10:00 AM on 12/01/2009

Colorado required it's local utility company to build a wind farm in 1998.

To the best of my knowledge it now generates the cheapest electricit­y in the State.

Some European countries get up to 25% of their electrical power from wind turbines. The US currently gets .05%.

For a country that prides itself on being the biggest, brightest, best, most innovative in the world. It is surprising how far we are behind our contempora­ries in so many fields of endeavor.

[malcomfabree]

07:13 PM on 11/22/2009

IDONTAGREE

[zombywulf]

02:26 AM on 11/06/2009

Hey Business needs that water, you people can drink coke.