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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8221.110.J
Description
Juniper-Cross Mountain Project
State
CO
Basin
Yampa/White
Date
7/6/1981
Title
The Echo of Echo Park: The History of National Park Development and Water Resource Nondevelopment in Northwest Colorado
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Report/Study
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<br />C"': <br />,"" <br />- - <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />David R. Brower, executive director of the Sierra Club and an <br />advocate of widescale coal development, discussed future energy <br />sources in 1954 thusly, "It may be argued that a few decades in the <br />future the coal, oil shale, and gas fuel supplies of the region may <br />begin to be scarce. However, a look at the technical progress of <br />the last two decades, combined with knowledge of the present stage <br />of development of nuclear (atomic) power leads the writer (Brower) <br />to the conclusion that it is not safe to predict that there will be, <br />in this century, a strong economic incentive to provide this rela- <br />tively small and expensive increment of hydro-~lectric power... <br />The prospects for nuclear power are little short of astounding, and <br />seem to become more so every day..." (33) <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />c <br /> <br />In another statement, about a year later, Brower said, "These <br />dams are primarily for power and may not be needed for 4 or 5 cen- <br />turies." (34) Charles Sauers, general superintendent of the Cook <br />County (Illinois) Forest Preserve, testified in an Interior hearing <br />that "it is highly possible that within the next decade or two <br />decades atomic energy for the development of power will make obso- <br />lescent all of the dams in the west and all of the dams you propose <br />to be built. They will mean nothing so far as power is concerned." (35~ <br /> <br />During the same time frame, others who generally belittled the <br />value of the hydroelectric power from the project or the market fo~ <br />it or pushed for other methods of power generation instead, included <br />Fred M. Packard, field secretary for the National Parks Association <br />(36); representative Sam Yorty of New York (37); Ansel Adams, (38); <br />Wallace Stegner, writing in the New Republic (39); and Raymond Moley, <br />writing in Newsweek magazine (40r:- <br /> <br />Comparisons were made between the estimated six mill per kilo- <br />watt hour cost of power from Echo Park and other sources. <br /> <br />The Sierra Club made the most detailed attack when during a 19S~ <br />Senate Committee hearing, Brower stated, "it seems well worth consid- <br />ering, for example, what would happen if power from coal were substi_ <br />tuted for Echo Park and Split Mountain dams' hydro-power in the <br />course of the Bureau's proposed payout period. There would be a <br />saving of $147,000,000 over the 44 years, and a market would have been <br />provided for some 35 million tons of Upper Basin coal which could <br />conceivably be pumped to the power plants through a pipeline..." <br /> <br />Brower presented a long argument against hydropower and con- <br />cluded the total cost of power to steam plant would be "private <br />utility plants," 7.4 millS/KWH and "federal steam plants," 4.9 mills/ <br />KWH compared to the estimated 6 millS/KWH federal hydroplant price. (AI) <br /> <br />Figures on the cost of power generation today offer a stark con_ <br />trast to the figures of 25 years ago. Total average cost of power <br />generation per kilowatt hour for Public Service Company of Colorado <br />for the 12 months ended January 31, 1981, was 20.39 mills. The cost <br />of generation based on source was as follows: oil, 69.69 mills; <br />gas, 36.63 mills; purchase power 26.58 mills. nuclear 25.09 mills. <br />It, , <br />coal, 13.83 mills; and from hydro, primarily older units 6.32 mills <br />per kilowatt hour. (42) , , <br /> <br />-8- <br />
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