Green River alert! Nukes ahoy!

Exciting Press Release for folks with a thing for the Colorado or Green River. Or nuke freaks.

Are we still building nukes? What about all those industrial wind farms in the hinterlands? Mojave desert solar arrays? We need hundreds of square miles of new “renewable” energy farms AND new nukes? Somebody is yanking our chain.

On January 12, 2010, the Utah Division of Water Rights will hold hearings on the protests of the Kane County and San Juan Water County Conservancy Districts’ change applications for the provision of water from the Green River for a proposed nuclear power plant. The hearings on the requests to change the point of diversion, place of use, and nature of use for 29,600 acre-feet (Water Rights 89-74, 89-1285, and 89-1513) of water from the Colorado River and 24,000 acre-feet (Water Right 09-462) of water from the San Juan River. The water has been leased to Blue Castle Holdings Inc. (BCH, formerly Transition Power Development LLC) for the nuclear reactor that BCH wants to site a few miles west of Green River.

The hearings start at 9:00 a.m. and will likely continue throughout the day. The public is urged to attend and may have an opportunity to voice their concerns.

posted by Mudd