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Show fh^M+j 9 Problemsj continued ' A woman attorney, a Ute Indian, in Salt Lake City, now working on a legal suit on separation of Church and State, claims she has the data on the shenanigans of the "Deferral Agreement" which will blow the CUP apart. Yet, she will not work with us - preferring to wait and deal with this issue herself. None of us had time or knt^j he**> to delve into the Indian issue - which is a key issue. Individuals having environmental concerns who are Mormons, and who work with us, are convinced they can solve the instream flow issues without stopping the CUP and the CUP, as the State Theocracy tells them, is absolutely necessary. EPC says flatly, the instream flow issue will never be resolved satisfactorily, if the CUP is developed, in spite of what the Bureau promises. Unless you have lived in Utah, you cannot realize the hold the Theocracy has on its people and the means of educating them - cradle to grave - in its philosophies and policies. Due to this, partly, and to the fact that the Rocky Mt. region is only now being hit with rapid growth and resource demand, the State is where Wisconsin was environmentally 100 years ago. County Commissioners appear to be conservative John Birchers, uneducated, limited and self-serving individuals who keep control of County and City offices and staffs in the outlying communities. I've been appalled at hearings where the most contemporary judgments are required on resource use and development, to see the mentality which is available to deal with these critical issues today. Ttt>f>fc are and can be brainwashed by sophisticated mining personnel. I have sat in hearings in northeast Utah on proposed oil shale development in a region of great beauty/wildlife and recreation significance^ which has been used for generations by these people for these purposes, and hear them publicly mouth the same rationale for development as the developers, and state that these resources on the sur^face of the land are less important "than putting food on the table." The issue is not that simplified. Yet northeast Utah - endowed with oil shale, gas and oil, coal, and phosphate ore, in abundance, - will be indiscriminately developed and industrialized in total disregard that it is also one of the nation's most diverse and irreplaceable natural water and wildlife areas. The limited number of conservationists in the State, dedicated and competent as they are becoming, cannot handle the amounts of issues developing -in the State. -=57 dtL^ I have hung on, also, to my Co-Chairman title, because the ^*^ other Co-Chairman, a psychiatrist and Chairman of Utah's Federation of Fly Fishermen, is unable to provide adequate leadership to CRCUP. Although he also pressed Secretary Andrus to preserve streams flows, and understands some of the stream resource issues and the economics and cost questions, he does not communicate effectively with me or with anyone else. What I discuss with them, and agree upon with him, never gets funnelled past him to the Group at their meetings. Another member, a micro-biologist for the Veterans Hospital, SLC, whom I interested in the Group, and who has worked on mahtj issues such as the Kapairowtiz and Escalante and National Park and |
