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More water cuts coming to Arizona (Christopher Conover, Arizona Public Media)

August 16, 2022 By Stu Williams Leave a Comment

https://news.azpm.org/p/news-topical-politics/2022/8/16/212498-more-water-cuts-coming-to-arizona/

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation imposed an additional 80,000 acre-feet of cutbacks to Arizona from Colorado River deliveries in 2023, to 592,000 acre-feet — more than 20% of the state’s annual apportionment of 2.8 million acre-feet. Under a Tier 2 shortage declaration, Arizona will see cutbacks along with Nevada and Mexico. California, which has senior rights among the three Lower Basin states, does not face a mandatory cutback next year. One acre-foot, or about 326,000 gallons, is typically enough water for six to eight persons’ annual needs.

Filed Under: News, Rosemont in the News, Rosemont Mine, SSSR News, Water

Feds announce short-term cut in Colorado River water for Arizona (Tony Davis, Arizona Daily Star)

August 16, 2022 By Stu Williams Leave a Comment

https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/feds-announce-short-term-cut-in-colorado-river-water-for-arizona/article_7b757bee-1cf8-11ed-9170-77a3a5a1391c.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation calls for additional 80,000 acre-feet of cutbacks to Central Arizona Project (CAP) deliveries in 2023, to 592,000 acre-feet — more than one-third of CAP’s annual apportionment of 1.5 million acre-feet. The Bureau’s new forecast, released today, is for Lake Mead’s elevation at the end of 2022 to drop 29 feet, to 1,039 feet, from the end of 2021.

Note: Access to this article may require a subscription to the Arizona Daily Star.

Filed Under: News, Rosemont, Rosemont in the News, SSSR News, Water

Hudbay opposition (Cathy McGrath, Vail Voice – Part 2)

August 12, 2022 By Stu Williams Leave a Comment

Part Two: Copper World’s processing facilities will involve a solvent extraction and electro-winning facility (SX-EW), a sulfide concentrator, a concentrate leach facility and an acid plant. The leach solution from a copper concentrate leach facility will be combined with solution from a separate oxide leaching circuit and treated in the SX-EW facility to produce copper cathode.

The concentrate leach facility will also produce sulfur, which will be processed into sulfuric acid at the acid plant, and then used on the oxide leach pads to leach copper from oxide ore. They will also build three conventional tailings storage facilities (TSFs).

Now I’m not a chemist – but when the monsoon comes and causes the bottom of Sycamore Canyon to turn into whitewater rapids, as it does in most years, what’s it bringing down from the mountains?

All the facilities I mentioned above will need to be built. [Hudbay] is about to own, privately, a path from the mountain along the canyon’s edge to Sahuarita Road. There will be constant truck traffic during the construction of these buildings over the next few years. Dust, noise and destruction of habitat will be ongoing, 24-7. [This work] could be starting very soon.

Buying land is not illegal, but it’s harder to regulate what’s happening on private property. It just seems to me that [Hudbay] is going out of its way to avoid being regulated or having to get permits. Why?

Phase I [of the project] would be used to mine copper from only private land on both sides of the mountain range, and would require only state and local permits to operate. Phase II would extend operations onto federal land and would require additional permission from the U.S. Forest Service. [Hudbay’s Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) Technical Report] mentions it may extend Phase I, so they can keep going if permitting is a problem.

I’m not even getting into groundwater issues or their item in the report about using driver-less load haulers. What could possibly go wrong? Google “driver-less load hauler accidents.” It’s a fun reading session.

I just think it’s a bad idea to allow [this mine project] so close to a populated area. It will create jobs. But property values will plummet, people will move, and we will become a dirty, dusty mining town. Is it worth it? Think fast! – [Hudbay] is up there, blading away, while you are reading this.

Cathy McGrath, Corona de Tucson

(Note: Part I was posted to the Scenic Santa Ritas’ website on August 4, 2022.)

https://www.thevailvoice.com/category/faces-of-vail/

Filed Under: News, Rosemont in the News, SSSR News

The cost of green energy: The nation’s biggest lithium mine may be going up on a site sacred to Native Americans (Chloe Atkins and Christine Romo, NBC News)

August 11, 2022 By Stu Williams Leave a Comment

https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/the-cost-of-green-energy-the-nation-s-biggest-lithium-mine-may-be-going-up-on-a-site-sacred-to-native-americans/index.html

Filed Under: Inspiration, News, Opposition, Rosemont in the News, Rosemont Mine, SSSR News

Conservationists file notice of intent to sue EPA over Queen Creek mining waste (Ron Dungan, Arizona Public Media)

August 11, 2022 By Stu Williams Leave a Comment

Groups also take aim at the state Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ)

https://news.azpm.org/p/newsc/2022/8/10/212417-conservationists-file-notice-of-intent-to-sue-epa-over-queen-creek-mining-waste/

Filed Under: Litigation, News, Rosemont, Rosemont in the News, SSSR News, Water

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Recent Posts

  • More water cuts coming to Arizona (Christopher Conover, Arizona Public Media) August 16, 2022
  • Feds announce short-term cut in Colorado River water for Arizona (Tony Davis, Arizona Daily Star) August 16, 2022
  • Hudbay opposition (Cathy McGrath, Vail Voice – Part 2) August 12, 2022
  • The cost of green energy: The nation’s biggest lithium mine may be going up on a site sacred to Native Americans (Chloe Atkins and Christine Romo, NBC News) August 11, 2022
  • Conservationists file notice of intent to sue EPA over Queen Creek mining waste (Ron Dungan, Arizona Public Media) August 11, 2022

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More water cuts coming to Arizona (Christopher Conover, Arizona Public Media)

Feds announce short-term cut in Colorado River water for Arizona (Tony Davis, Arizona Daily Star)

Hudbay opposition (Cathy McGrath, Vail Voice – Part 2)

The cost of green energy: The nation’s biggest lithium mine may be going up on a site sacred to Native Americans (Chloe Atkins and Christine Romo, NBC News)

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