Dennis Webb

1 week ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

The Bureau of Land Management has affirmed previous decisions approving two North Fork Valley drilling projects that combined could result in the drilling of 226 wells. The action potentially ends years of delays in obtaining approvals for the companies involved. The agency has approved a final supplemental environmental assessment on SG Interests’ Bull Mountain master development plan and a separate project involving both SG Interests and Gunnison Energy.

1 week ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

The Trump administration has agreed to provide nearly $12 million to the Orchard Mesa Irrigation District for water projects, buoying hopes that the administration’s freeze on tens of millions of dollars the Biden administration pledged for Western Slope water projects — including the Shoshone hydroelectric power water rights — may be thawing.

1 week ago | montrosepress.com | Dennis Webb

Thanks to changed language related to livestock grazing, much more federal land than initially proposed would be available in the West, including locally, for potential sale under a revised version of a proposal in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s budget reconciliation bill, critics of the proposal say. The provision, being championed by the committee’s chair, U.S. Sen.

1 week ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

Christopher Tomlinson/The Daily SentinelMount Garfield is seen in this 2017 flyover of the Grand Valley with Grand Mesa and the Palisade area. Vast amounts of acreage in the Grand Junction region, including in areas such as the Book Cliffs, Grand Mesa and its slopes, the Bangs Canyon region and the Uncompahgre Plateau, would be eligible for sale under a revised version of a proposal in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s budget reconciliation bill, critics of the proposal say.

1 week ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

Thanks to changed language related to livestock grazing, much more federal land than initially proposed would be available in the West, including locally, for potential sale under a revised version of a proposal in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s budget reconciliation bill, critics of the proposal say. The provision, being championed by the committee’s chair, U.S. Sen.