san luis valley
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RWR water project faces opposition from Polis, legislators
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The attention on a $600-million proposal to pipe water from the San Luis Valley to Douglas County is gaining attention – of the negative kind – from Gov. Jared Polis and other policymakers at the state Capitol. Polis, in a statement to Colorado Politics, took a position last week on the proposal from Renewable Water…
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Colorado’s age-old water doctrine pushed to the brink by drought
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Editor’s Note: This story is a collaborative report by Fresh Water News working with nine other Colorado news outlets. In Evans, four miles south of Greeley, houses are shooting up. Once a quiet farm town, Evans is scrambling to come up with enough water to slake the thirst of hundreds of new homeowners, drawn here…
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Douglas County goes after San Luis Valley water
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Douglas County, which will get $68.2 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, intends to put some of that money toward buying water from the San Luis Valley. But that isn’t sitting well with folks in the San Luis Valley, who claim the plan to divert water from the valley to the Front Range will…
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Colorado congressional redistricting commission focuses on ‘southern district’ concept
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At Wednesday night’s congressional redistricting commission meeting, a “southern district” concept was approved by a majority of the commissioners, meaning some big changes could be coming to the preliminary draft congressional map first released in late June. The “southern district” concept would be built around the idea that Colorado’s rural ethnic minority communities should be…
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Latino community advocates: Colorado redistricting plan needs big changes
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The Colorado House and Senate district map being toured around the state for public input doesn’t provide adequate voting power to the state’s Hispanic and Latino communities, according to the Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization. The prominent statewide advocacy organization proposed a total overhaul of the proposed legislative district maps, with a special…
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Decades-old fight over historic Colorado ranch could end
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A decades-old legal fight over access to a historic southern Colorado ranch may soon reach a conclusion. The Colorado Sun reports that William Harrison, owner of the San Luis Valley ranch, says he is ending his legal efforts to restrict access by heirs of an 1844 Mexican land grant on which the ranch sits. The…
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Iceland looks to Colorado for geothermal energy projects
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WASHINGTON – Iceland, a country with abundant resources in geothermal energy, is setting its sights on Colorado as it tries to tap into the planet’s biggest market for electricity. New technologies are raising hopes that geothermal energy could produce much of the electricity used in the United States. Some of the sites ripe for geothermal…
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Fed plan to allow drilling near Colorado’s Sangres, Dunes poses epic eco peril
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The Bureau of Land Management is scheduled to lease mineral rights for oil and gas exploration on 11 land parcels totaling 18,358 acres in Huerfano County come this fall. Four of the parcels border the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area and all 11 are within eight miles of the Great Sand Dunes National Park. Every…
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Controversy hounds San Luis Valley dog-breeding plan
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While the Denver metro area is anxiously awaiting the announcement of where the massive Amazon HQ2 will land, Conejos County in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado has some other ideas about economic development: namely, dog-breeding facilities. And they are as controversial as one would guess. The Alamosa Valley Courier reported this week that…
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Rep. Donald Valdez calls out fellow House Democrat on House floor
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The issue of harassment at the state Capitol took a turn Friday, when a Democratic member of the House claimed he’d been harassed by another member, a fellow Democrat, and threatened to call for an expulsion resolution. Rep. Donald Valdez of La Jara took to the House microphone Friday morning to complain that he had…