Water Board Usurps Court With Threatening Motion
Mesquite, NV. On August 4, the Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) voted unanimously to declare the Lease between the Virgin Valley Water District (VVWD) and Paradise Canyon (dba Wolf Creek…
BLM Investigating Ryan Bundy For Gold Butte Irrigation Violations
On Wednesday, Jennifer Yachnin, for Greenwire, reported that The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is investigating if Nevada rancher Ryan Bundy illegally built a new irrigation infrastructure in the Gold…
Judge Ends SNWA Eastern Nevada Water Grab
On March 9th Seventh Judicial District Court Judge Robert Estes denied an appeal by the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) to transfer 91,000 Acre Feet Yearly (AFY) of groundwater from…
Horsford Defense Local Water Source
Mesquite, Nev. — On Tuesday, November 26, 2019, Congressman Steven Horsford (NV-04) wrote a letter to the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada to oppose an impending oil and gas…
Fracking Earthquakes
Hydraulic fracturing works by mixing available water [i] with ‘fracking fluid and injecting the mix, under high pressure, to make thousands of extremely small 'micro-earthquakes' in deep well holes. These…
Beneficial Use of Fracking Water Considered
Oil and gas companies are increasingly treating and reusing flow-back water from fracked wells, which, unlike freshwater, is very high in salt, with good results. The practice scales down the…
Water For Fracking in Nevada’s Great Basin Identified
At least nine of fourteen aquifers in Nevada's Great Basin would likely provide water should natural gas fracking occur on federal lands in Nevada’s Great Basin where their exists oil…
Fracking For Nevada’s Natural Gas
Currently, Nevada lacks even marginal gas reserves, and only a limited amount of natural gas is produced.[i] According to the Nevada Commission on Mineral Resources, there were five hydraulically fractured…
Fracking in Nevada’s Great Basin Inevitable
It is only a matter of time until portions of the Great Basin in Nevada are open to fracking. Federal taxpayers own significant oil and natural gas reserves on federal…
Battle Born Media Continues Assault on Top Rated Golf Course Misleading on Water Pricing: Part 2 of 6 .
Mesquite, NV. In part one of Battle Born Media’s (BBM) five-part series “reporter” Barbara Ellestad grossly misrepresented the May 2018 lawsuit filed by Paradise Canyon, LLC, owner the Wolf Creek…
