Gary Wockner: Make EARTH Great Again!

Advocate/Scientist/Writer Protecting Rivers, Water, and Wild Nature. Non-Profit Environmental Entrepreneur. Looking for solutions.

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"$100 million settlement fund for Poudre River Improvement! We got the best outcome for the river that we could get. We could have fought ‘til the bitter end in court, with risk of losing and getting absolutely nothing.”--Gary Wockner of Save The Poudre

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"What would the Colorado River say? It would say, 'Help! Help!" -- Gary Wockner

Check out this #RightsOfNature video from the Systemic Justice Project, a Think Tank at Harvard Law School.

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Environmentalists are in a kind of wilderness now for the rest of this election cycle and likely longer. Sigh....

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This is just belligerent Nature-hating and won't make a rat's ass bit if difference in the immigration issue. Plus, it screws the river corridor.

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BREAKING: DHS just waived all environmental laws to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park.

This marks the first time in American history the feds have gutted dozens of laws to push industrial-level construction through a national park.

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@CoyoteGulch @denverpost Great piece!

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MAJOR NISP UPDATE -- SIX NISP PARTICIPANTS DROP OUT AS COST ESCALATES OVER 50% PER ACRE FOOT. NISP WILL NOW ONLY BE 1/2 SIZED, APPARENTLY. The article is paywalled. We copy/paste a passage below.
Only nine participants, including Erie, signed on for the project’s next phase after Fort Collins-Loveland, the Morgan district, Firestone, Evans, Severance and Eaton withdrew. That reduces NISP from what was originally planned as “roughly a 40,000 acre-foot project” down to “a little shy of 20,000 acre-feet per year of firm annual yield,” Brad Wind, Northern Water’s general manager, told the Erie Town Council in May.

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Want to boost the local economy ? Protect Nature.

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Never thought we'd see this presentation at the CU-Boulder Colorado River conference!!

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If Trump gives them money, the states are then incentivized to not reach an agreement.

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"That money was not well spent." -- Brad Udall, about the Biden IRA money spent on the Colorado River

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Why should Trump give them more? The states are refusing to reach an agreement and holding the American taxpayer hostage.

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Good News in Albania.

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Good news!

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"A newly-registered European Citizens' Initiative petition calls on the European Union to come up with legislation that would let polluted rivers or deforested woodlands “take” their polluters to court, giving natural bodies legal rights akin to those of a company."

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@CompleteCO In addition, for all the hoopla and cash, it will only serve a miniscule number of riders.

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My property is now outside of this taxing boundary (good!), but my RTD taxes are still paying for this debacle.

An excellent, concise read here from @CompleteCO. The Colorado Connector will cause more environmental impacts -- including climate emissions -- than it decreases, and cost exorbitant amounts of money, when faster/cheaper/easier alternatives exist (Buses!).

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“Rivers need water, and when you divert water out of rivers, you're causing ecological damage, in this case, in Grand County, severe ecological damage, and in a drought scenario, extreme drought like this one, it just gets worse and worse.” -- Gary Wockner, Save The Colorado

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Good piece!

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“Given the extreme drought and political chaos on the Colorado River, we believe district court Judge Arguello’s ruling is now more important than ever. She cited how the new depletion would further drain the river and how climate change was intensifying and reducing flows. The Gross Dam project was ill-conceived from the get-go, and we believe we have a very strong case in the court of appeals.” -- Gary Wockner, Save The Colorado

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Is timing everything?

At the worst possible moment in history, Denver Water argues that climate change should NOT be considered in court decisions about the Colorado River.

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Denver Water is trying to overturn a district court ruling about climate change on the Colorado River at, literally, the worst moment in history.

I'd rather be us, than them, in front of this panel of appeals court judges.

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“Given the extreme drought and political chaos on the Colorado River, we believe district court Judge Arguello’s ruling is now more important than ever. She cited how the new depletion would further drain the river and how climate change was intensifying and reducing flows. The Gross Dam project was ill-conceived from the get-go, and we believe we have a very strong case in the court of appeals.” -- Gary Wockner, Save The Colorado

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Boulder County is using drones to spray herbicide on public property. Thank you, Commissioner Stolzmann, for voting against this:

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This is an incredibly BAD story.

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