A NARRATIVE

• Arriving soon: A history of speculation and/or project suspensions, that include: ballistic missile testing, three nuclear power plant proposals; one defunct uranium milling plant, a new proposal for a uranium milling project; one defunct oil refinery, folowed by two proposals for new oil refineries; proposals to process bitumen and kerogen from the Tavaputs Plateau; a lithium extraction company, a proposed inland port authority; a proposed retirement community, and; procuring water rights to sell and transer wet water to all these speculative projects for the two affected counties, namely western Grand County and eastern Emery County, and the Green River that flows between these two jurisdictions. 

• Data: Population Historic Utah Municipalities and Unincorporated Areas
• 1950: Green River - 583 / 1,274 - Moab
• 1960 - GR - 1,075 / 4,682 - Moab
• 1970 - GR - 1,033 / 4,793 - Moab
• 1980 - GR - 1,048 / 5,333 - Moab
• 1990 - GR - 856 / 3,971 - Moab
• 2000 - GR - 973 / 4,779 - Moab

HISTORY

• 1996 - History of Emery County and Green River. Geary.
• 1996 - History of Grand County and Elgin. Firmage.
• Green River History & Culture. Epicenter.
• Wikipedia

COMMUNITY

• Epicenter.
• John Wesley Powell River Running Museum.

THE GREEN RIVER OBSERVER

• V1 N5 June 2024
• V1 N7 August 2024
• V1 N8 September 2024
• V1 N9 October 2024
• V1 N10 November 2024
• V1 N11 December 2024
• V1 N12 January 2025
• V2 N1 February 2025
• V2 N2 March 2025
• V2 N3 April 2025
• V2 N4 May 2025
• V2 N5 June 2025
• V2 N6 July 2025 (City Budget and personel)
• V2 N7 August 2025
• V2 N9 October 2025
• V2 N10&11December 2025

MEETINGS

• March 11, 2026 - Town Hall Meeting at Senior Center from 5 to 7 PM.

NEWS

• April 17, 2026 - 'Ren's Gone. Now What? In Green River, the death of its mayor still lingers. By Andrew Christiansen for the Times Independent.
• February 26, 2026 - Rural Utah hopes for a piece of the states nuclear ambitions. By Ethan Rauschkolb For KUER Radio 90.1 FM. 
• February 9, 2026 - Green River City Source Protection Plan.
• December 29, 2024 - Utah Will Pay Millions For Farmers To Leave Fields Empty And Leave Water For The Colorado River. By David Condos for The Salt Lake Tribune.
• October 28, 2024 - Green River uranium mill has shown slow progress in Utah. By Anastasia Hufham for Salt Lake Tribune.
• October 11, 2024 - What's Next For Green River? The Green River Observer.
• November 11, 2024 - Is This Utah's Nuclear Future? A video about uranium mill operations at White Mesa in San Juan County. By Trevor Christensen and Anastasia Hufman for The Salt Lake Tribune.

CITY OF GREEN RIVER

• Home page
• Meeting agendas and minutes

UTAH INLAND PORT AUTHORITY

• Home page
• The Utah Inland Port Authority approved a project area for the City of Green River at their board meeting held in Price, Utah on June 24th, 2024 - Meeting Minutes.

rPLUS ENERGIES

• rPlus Energies secures $1B for 800-MW solar-plus-storage ‘peaker plant’. By Emma Penrod for Utility Dive.
• Four hour battery storage
• Pumpback Project (hydropower); the Book Cliffs is the likely target site for the necessary elevation.
• Website

LITHIUM EXTRACTION

• Blog post at Canyonlands Watershed Council

THE RAISE GRANT APPLICATION

• Green River City Commitment Letter. Mayor Hatt.
• Merit Criteria Narrative.
• Project Description.
• Project Readiness.
• Project Budget.xlsx.

PUBLIC COMMENTS AND ACTIVISM

• Website: Stop the Polluting Ports
• Public Comments about 2024 RAISE Grant Application. Sarah Fields of Uranium Watch.

URANIUM MILL DISPOSAL SITE IN GRAND COUNTY NEAR GREEN RIVER CITY

• Green River Utah Disposal Site. Department of Energy, Office of Legacy Management.
• Is This Utah's Nuclear Future? A video about uranium mill operations at White Mesa in San Juan County. By Trevor Christensen and Anastasia Hufman for The Salt Lake Tribune.

OIL REFINERIES

• The proposed oil refineries at Green River