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North Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting Minutes, 09.23.2008 4 <br />Dave M: All it says is that they are going to cooperate; it doesn't say how the resource is <br />going to be reallocated. <br />Barb V: It also doesn't have any sense of urgency. It is not something you can spend the <br />next ten years trying to figure out. <br />Rick W: On page 4, "mitigating third party economic impacts,"2 what does that mean? <br />We are repeating SWSI at a different angle. Now we are trying to start over from what <br />SWSI already identified and get consensus <br />Mike A: How can they expect Colorado to come up with enough water for this supposed <br />oil shale development? I don't think there is enough water in CO with all these other uses <br />going on to support oil shale development. <br />Kent C: The energy companies own a lot of the water rights already on the western <br />slope. How much water is in the Colorado? They will be working on that for the next 30 <br />years, because they can't agree. <br />Dave M: The one drainage that has available water is the Yampa <br />Rick W: It always comes back to storage. <br />Dave M: We are spending time doing all of these studies, but when Ooley Kaapis did all <br />of his studies so long ago, no one is using them, all they do is collect dust on the shelf <br />Hal H: They could re-write this with more realistic issues. Either take the water to where <br />the people are, or the people can go to where the water is. Do you want agriculture or <br />don't you? Make up your mind. <br />Barb V: And another issue is the whole discussion about food production. Is food <br />production part of our national security? We as a country are used to the idea that we can <br />go out and buy whatever we want, but the dollar is softening, and our ability to do that is <br />going to change. <br />Rick W: On Page one, Number 4, it mentions "regional coordination strategies." Do you <br />think that's going to happen when they want to take water from the west-slope and put it <br />on the east slope? <br />Mike A: So far the money is for studies, and not for building projects. You can't build <br />hardly anything with 40 million. The WSRA is good, but it's not producing anything. <br />Discussion Summary: <br />The consensus of the roundtable so far is: <br />*This statement is warm and fuzzy, but not realistic.* <br />*What is the tangible effect of this? What is it going to do? Knowing the deliverables of <br />this statement would help in evaluating it.* <br />The discussion will continue at the next roundtable meeting. <br />Education Liaison Update: <br />Curran gave an Education Liaison update. <br />Upcoming Events: Sustaining Colorado's Watersheds Conference, Oct 1-3, Vail <br />Governor's Drought Conference, Oct 8-10, Denver: Registration $100 <br />2 <br />Promote cost-effectiveness by <br />- allocating costs to all beneficiaries fairlN <br />- achieving benefits at the lowest cost <br />- Providing viable financing mechanisms, including local, state, and federal <br />hunting financing <br />- Mitigating third-party economic impacts