I am a friend and colleague of Elizabeth (“Liz”) Birnbaum, who recently managed the Minerals Management Service in the U.S. Department of the Interior. She left her position several weeks into the BP spill in the Gulf. The reporting on her sometimes claims or implies that she lacks sufficient commitment to environmental protection or safety. […]
Bruce Driver
Posted inOctober 27, 1997: Deconstructing the age of dams
Water project creates bad precedent
Dear HCN, Heather McGregor’s article on the proposed sale of the Collbran reclamation project does a good job of making a complex dispute understandable (HCN, 9/15/97). Nonetheless, there are a couple of points in the article I need to address. I represent a dozen western Colorado, regional and national environmental groups, as well as the […]