by Melissa | Jan 16, 2015 | Casa Grande, Environment
Growth demands water; just ask Casa Grande By Melissa St. Aude | Casa Grande Dispatch Between the proposed PhoenixMart and Overfield Farms developments, thousands of acres of farmland in Casa Grande east of Interstate 10 could someday be transformed into a sprawling...
by Melissa | Jan 9, 2015 | Casa Grande, Environment, Government
Dick Powell: Always up for a challenge By Melissa St. Aude | Casa Grande Dispatch Dick Powell spent hundreds of hours in 2014 focused on water — talking about it, learning about it in special conferences and advocating for agricultural water users. “Water’s become one...
by Melissa | Dec 9, 2014 | Environment, Government
Mine land-swap vote imminent in Senate By Emily Bregel | Arizona Daily Star A U.S. Senate decision is imminent on legislation that would ease the way for a massive copper mine 100 miles north of Tucson. The Senate could vote Wednesday or Thursday on the National...
by Melissa | Dec 8, 2014 | Environment, Florence
[GUEST COLUMN] Florence mine back to square one By Justin Merritt, senior manager at Southwest Value Partners | Phoenix Business Journal (Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussions purposes only.) An administrative law judge and the Arizona Water...
by Melissa | Nov 21, 2014 | Environment, Maricopa
Maricopa at center of water conservation research By Robby Gal | Coolidge Examiner With Arizona’s scarcity of water, the aim here has always been to do more with less. At the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center, the staff is working on a variety of related projects...
by Melissa | Nov 21, 2014 | Development, Environment, Florence
Florence Copper Project permit is sent back for more work by Mark Cowling | Florence Reminder & Blade-Tribune Sixteen months after granting a temporary permit to the Florence Copper Project, the state environmental agency has been ordered to take it back for a...