Gary Wockner: Make EARTH Great Again!
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Advocate/Scientist/Writer Protecting Rivers, Water, and Wild Nature. Non-Profit Environmental Entrepreneur. Looking for solutions.
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"Save The Colorado is the only environmental group in the water court battle advocating for the largest amount of water to flow downstream all the way to Glenwood Springs." -- Gary Wockner coloradosun.com/2026/04/03/opi…
A federal panel voted to exempt oil and gas companies from complying with the Endangered Species Act when drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The decision will have outsize impact on endangered species such as Rice’s whales, sea turtles and whooping cranes. wapo.st/4tjQcSA
This is extremely important right now. When @usbr announces a release from Glen Canyon less than 7.2 MAF thru Lees Ferry, protecting Powell power head, they will be inverting priorities in Article IV(b). Upper Basin won’t be breaching III(d) @usbr will be. You can’t curtail us
COLORADO RIVER CAMPACT CALL UPDATE: This article talks openly about the threat of a Compact Call and how it would affect junior post-compact water rights in Colorado. During the permitting battle, and court fight, over the Windy Gap Firming Project (WGFP), we repeatedly raised the issue that the WGFP water right was very junior (1980) and subject to call if/when conditions worsened on the Colorado River. @USBR, the @USACEHQ, @northern_water, all the WGFP participants -- as well as the judge in district court -- 100% ignored us. Now, WGFP participants are sitting on $750 million of committed bond debt, a project that is built and not delivering water because of uranium contamination, and the specter of a compact call that could theoretically wipe out the very junior water right the project proposes to divert. @ShannonMullane @mboothdenver @ColoradoSun
The deal : - Upper Basin agrees to not invoke IV(b) - AZ agrees to not call us - Bureau keeps the power head in Powell - Release to LB will be low, 6 MAF, less is possible if inflow is really bad - We don’t risk crashing the river on bypass tubes, no one wants that I doubt AZ will take the deal, it’s not their style. If @usbr defends the power head and pushes us in to a call Upper Basin is in the clear, we aren’t depleting Lees Ferry the Bureau is contrary to IV(b) If @usbr adheres to IV(b), releases 7.2 to Lees Ferry to prevent an AZ call, loses power head, goes to bypass tubes and they fail it’s @CAPArizona’s fault they crashed the river :) @drexer7
The Colorado River is on the brink of possible forced water cuts. One thing is certain: There will be lawyers. buff.ly/MGTPekZ
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