Albuquerque Journal newspaper stories
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH/OPINION: Is Natural Gas the Lesser of Two Evils?
... through its worst year in recent history. Commodity prices have cratered, and not a single coal-bed methane well was drilled in Wyoming's Powder River Basin in June, welcome news to local environmental groups. For the next year or two, the nation is likely to remain awash in gas. But if the ...
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH/OPINION: Oil Shale Dreams Have To Be Big
... down to generate power. But it should be at least a break-even proposition. Is it possible to move enough rock by rail? Consider the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, where immense coal mines fill trains to fuel distant power plants, as a model. On an average day in 2005, 63 “unit trains& ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: Abandoned Marina a Sign of Major Drought
... to those seven Western states. Lake Powell's contents are the sum of the rain and snow that fall upstream, in the upper Colorado River basin, minus the human decisions to use water before it gets to Powell, or to release it for downstream use in Arizona, Nevada and California. New ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: Fish Will Have To Wait for Protection
... , July 08, 2009 Fish Will Have To Wait for Protection By Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press A fish once found throughout the lower Colorado River Basin warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday that the roundtail chub will have ...
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH: County May Supply Subdivision Water
... of the $215 million Buckman Direct Diversion project. The Buckman facility will take the area's share of San Juan-Chama water - Colorado River basin water piped to New Mexico - from the Rio Grande. County Attorney Steve Ross said the original plan was for Las Campanas to take raw ...
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ABQJOURNAL SANTAFE: High Runoff Due to Dust?
... grazing began in the region in the 1800s. The rapid snowmelt is a potential problem for the system that captures water from the San Juan River basin and shuttles it across the Continental Divide to provide drinking water for Albuquerque. The water flows through the 13-mile Azotea Tunnel ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: High Runoff Blamed on Dust Storms
... grazing began in the region in the 1800s. The rapid snowmelt is a potential problem for the system that captures water from the San Juan River basin and shuttles it across the Continental Divide to provide drinking water for Albuquerque. The water flows through the 13-mile Azotea Tunnel. If ...
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