little colorado river
Posted May 29, 2020, 4:35 pm
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
Federal regulators have given a Phoenix company the green light to study a hydropower project for the Little Colorado River, what opponents fear is a first step toward “destroying incredibly rare, beautiful, sacred resources.”... Read more»
Posted Dec 26, 2019, 12:44 pm
James Carr
/Cronkite News
A Phoenix company wants to build two massive hydroelectric projects on the Little Colorado River. Environmentalists and Native Americans say the projects threaten life within the Canyon and would defile sacred land.... Read more»
Posted Jul 16, 2019, 2:38 pm
B. Poole
/TucsonSentinel.com
Three environmental groups sued the Bureau of Land Management Monday to prevent fracking for natural gas and oil in more than 4,000 acres of public land near a national forest in Arizona and the state’s most important aquifer.... Read more»
Posted Jun 22, 2012, 11:35 am
Ryan Clark
/Cronkite News Service
Hopi lawmakers gave new life Thursday to a congressional plan to settle the tribe’s water-rights claims in the Little Colorado River basin, apparently backtracking from a vote last week to reject the plan.... Read more»