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Allen Best

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  • Freelance Editor and Writer, Freelance
  • Editor and Publisher, Big Pivots
  • None, ColoradoBiz, Energy News Network, Mountain Town News
Allen, Colorado
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Journalist, lover of high mountains, flowing water. I produce Big Pivots, which chronicles climate, energy and water in Colorado.

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Republican River Basin aquifer faces rapid depletion

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By Allen Best Verified, Big Pivots
| alamosacitizen.com
Like the Colorado River, a compact governs the shared Republican River. That compact was adopted in 1943 by Colorado, the headwaters of the Republican and several tributaries, and Nebraska and Kansas, the two down-river states. The Republican and the Colorado differ in one fundamental respect. Nearly all the water in the Colorado River comes from the sky, mostly from last winter’s snow. Nearly all Republican River water comes from underground.
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Xcel Energy's worries about short-term resource adequacy

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By Allen Best Verified, Big Pivots
| KUNC-FM (Greeley, CO) Verified
Xcel Energy was going to get out of coal in Colorado by the end of 2030. It still plans to do so. But the journey toward that goal post has become somewhat circuitous. Even two years ago, Xcel said it had some problem nailing down new generating capacity. That was not an uncommon problem, given the kinks coming out of Covid. Then came another breakdown of Comanche 3, the largest and youngest coal plant in Colorado. That was last August.
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Closer to the ending than the beginning

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By Allen Best Verified, Big Pivots
| The Fence Post Verified
Like the Colorado River, a compact governs the shared Republican River. That compact was adopted in 1943 by Colorado, the headwaters of the Republican and several tributaries, and Nebraska and Kansas, the two down-river states. The Republican and the Colorado differ in one fundamental respect. Nearly all the water in the Colorado River comes from the sky, mostly from last winter’s snow. Nearly all Republican River water comes from underground.
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