The Fort Collins man aiming to build a pipeline to carry water from western Wyoming to Colorado’s Front Range said he is undeterred by a federal agency’s rejection of his permit application. Project opponents, however, said Aaron Million’s confidence might be misplaced. The proposal for bringing new water to the thirsty Front Range of Colorado was rejected as “premature” this week by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, subject to a potential rehearing. The 560-mile pipeline, formally called the Regional Water Supply Project, could potentially transport up to 250,000 acre feet of water from the Green River Basin in Wyoming to Colorado. It was proposed by water speculator Aaron Million as a way of bringing water to Denver-area suburbs that don’t have sustainable long-term water supply. After the proposal faltered and languished in the early review stages by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Million suddenly tried to reinvent the pipeline as an energy project, switching the review process to the FERC.
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