Protecting Fort Collins and Northern Colorado from Uranium Mining
A Canadian company, Powertech, is planning to mine uranium just six miles northeast of Fort Collins on 6,880 acres of private land. The company has bought mineral rights and continues to drill test holes. Powertech is proposing an in-situ leach mining operation that will pump chemicals into the groundwater to leach out the uranium, and then pump the groundwater to the surface to chemically extract the uranium from the water.
Clean Energy Transportation Solutions For Northern Colorado
Northern Colorado is a fast-growing area that faces many challenges and opportunities as it develops. The future transportation systems available to northern Colorado residents will be a key feature that determines how this area develops as well as the environmental and economic health of the landscape and the citizens. The two main north-south transportation corridors that connect northern Colorado to the Denver metropolitan area – I-25 and the Highway 287 – are both currently overused and in need of improvements.
Stopping The Poudre River Dam
As far as great rivers go, Colorado's Cache la Poudre is a crystalline gem, found embedded among the majestic Colorado Rockies. Its long borders ebb and flow along a wide and diverse path, cutting through the Continental Divide and feeding into both the Rocky Mountain National Park and Roosevelt National Forest.