• 2005 - A Technical Report Toward Reclaiming Uranium Mill Tailings. Dohrenwend and Greenbaum.
• 2006 - White Mesa Uranium Mill Archeological Sites Report. Fields.
• 2008 - Uranium Mining. Southwest Hydrology.
• 2011 - Conflict at the Canyon. Environmental Working Group.
• 2019 - Uranium Mining in Grand Canyon Region. Grand Canyon Trust.
• 2019 - Analyzing the Cost of Small Modular Reactors and Alternative Power Portfolios. HEAL Utah.

GREEN RIVER NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

NEWS CLIPS

• Click here to read the story by Judy Fahys of the Salt Lake Tribune announcing Utah's positive decision by the state engineer to approve the water transfer for the proposed nucler power plant near Green River, Utah.
• Utah's First Proposed Nuclear Plant Goes On Trial
• Salt Lake Weekly

• Click here to read this story by Judy Fahys and Steven Oberbeck in the Salt Lake Tribune about a fraud case involving a financial partner of BLue Castle Holdings, LeadDog Capital.
• Click here for the archived press release of Blue Castle Holdings' partnership agreement with LeadDog Capital that has since been removed from the web page of Blue Castle Holdings.
• Click here to read this story by Judy Fahys and Steven Oberbeck in the Salt Lake Tribune, which includes the administrative record of the State Engineer's review.

Emery County Economic Development Director Resigns

• Utah State Auditor Releases Report On Alleged Impropriety in Emery County Economic Development Department. Emery County Progress.

Willow Creek Pipeline Company and Acquisition by Blue Castle Holdings

• 2010- BCH press release announces 100% acquisition of Willow Creek Pipeline Company
• 2015 - Nuclear Intelligence Weekly mentions BCH sold this pipeline company (this article was posted on the BCH website and later scrubbed)

Dominate utility in Utah not interested in developing nuclear power

• 2013 - Salt Lake Tribune news feature by Judy Fahys
• 2015- Intergrated Resource Plan. Rocky Mountain Power.

Op Eds About Nuclear Power

• Nuclear Power: Dead in the Water it Poisoned. John LaForge.
• Dr. Cooper in Forbes
• Harvey Wasserman
• Union of Concerned Scientists

Other News

• Scientific American has published a 100% wind, water & solar energy proposal for the entire world by 2030 here.
• Letter from scientists who support nuclear energy

• 2010 - Transcript of protest hearing. Utah Division of Water Rights.
• 2010 - Press release by Utah State Engineer
• 2010 - Decision of Kane County water transfer
• 2010 - decision of San Juan County water transfer
• 2010 - Request for reconsideration by Uranium Watch et al
• 2010 - request for reconsideration by HEAL et al
• 2010 - Engineer's denial to reconsider

Legal (Judicial)

• 2013 -Transcript of the five-day trial
• 2013 - Utah District Court Decision

Water Rights

Since the water rights are bifurcated, and nearly half of the combined water supply has a junior water right, the operations of the proposed nuclear powerplant are likely to be curtailed during a water shortage in the Colorado River basin. The Bureau of Reclamation is anticipating a 50/50 chance of shortages occurring in the lower basin by the end of the current decade, and the Department of Energy anticipates power generation at Glen Canyon Dam to be curtailed.

• Kane County Water Right Transfer. The year of priority is 1965 and, according to Judge Harmon's Court Order, is now subordinate to the Central Utah Project). SEE: Archive from Utah Division of Water Rights
• San Juan County Water Right Transfer. The year of priority became 2000 after the water right was reinstated; the water right was granted extensions in 2006 and 2011; the next extension is due in 2017. SEE: Archive from Utah Division of Water Rights
• Water diversions in Eastern Utah are dependent on federal contracts from a water right called Ultimate Phase. Read this article called: Ultimate Phase Water Rights Stored in Flaming Gorge Reservoir

• 2012 - Dangers of living near nuclear facilities
• 2014 - 50 Reasons to Fear the Worst from Fukushima (timeline of nuclear proliferation)

• The developer is Blue Castle Holdings (BCH)
• The CEO of BCH is Aaron Tilton; energy lobbyist.
• The electricity from the nuclear facility is targeted for the Wasatch Front (Salt Lake City) with surplus for Wyoming, California, Nevada and Arizona.
• Electricity may be targeted to develop oil shale and tar sands in the Uinta Basin of the Colorado Plateau.
• The total low ball cost is projected to be 16 billion dollars (decommissioning costs not included).
• Original projected completion date of Unit One was 2020.
• Green River has zero housing available staff and construction workers
• Green River City does not have a hospital.
• Located on 1,627 acres of School Institutional Trust Lands (SITLA) near the Intersection of Hwy 6 and Interstate 70 (photo).
• Water intake would be near the I-70 bridge crossing of the Green River with a high-security pipeline corridor to the power plant (layout).
• Total annual amount of water consumption is 54,000 acre-feet; there are no return flows to the Green River.
• There is no contract with the federal government to supply water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir to the project in times of shortages
• The decision before Utah Division of Water Rights is about approving the transfer of two water rights to Emery County, one from San Juan County and the other from Kane County (lease agreement).
• The original points of diversion (POD) are the San Juan River and Lake Powell. The two counties would lease their water rights to Blue Castle Holdings and then use those funds to develop surface water projects in their perspective counties. For example, Kane County would develop the Lake Powell Pipeline.
• This proposed transfer will increase the overall consumption of surface water in three Utah counties.
• The problems are two-fold: Surplus water does not exist in the Colorado River basin and the endangered species problem does.
• The water agencies are not thrilled about the proposal of Blue Castle Holdings. The Bureau of Reclamation is concerned that water for the Central Utah Project is at risk. The US Fish and Wildlife Service is concerned about the recovery of endangered fish, as is Utah Division of Water Resources. See also Dr. Holden's comments on this proposed project.

• Uranium Watch
• Water Transfer Application Documents
• You Tube
• High Country News