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Show Utah is being thrust into the 20th Century through probable energy development and with government decision-makers at all levels - State and Federal - who are either Inadequately wsu, prepared to appreciate the last remaining outstanding surface ^ ~i y, recreation resources, outside of Alaska, which they have all (t*uJ**^<Z used and taken for granted, but will trade off in the name of ^JA^ progress and provision for Utah residents "putting food on the 'v^**c^~ table", or they cannot exert necessary development programs to +ir^ ' offset indiscriminate development. The Director of Natural Resources for Utah was overheard to say, flying over the oil shale area and the White River (to be dammed; oil shale is infeasible without government subsidy) "We shall'subdue the Earth"! This whole magnificent area abutting the Green and Colorado Rivers is underlain with oil shale, tar sands, oil, gas, phosphate ore and coal. Industrialization of the region in developing these, will involve a network of highways, filling in of canyons with mining overburden waste, damming all rivers, locating towns, buildings, and mineral-related constructions as well as opening up vast surface areas for mining - in ways totally incompatible with protecting or preserving natural habitat areas which are irreplaceable. Development issues are so numerous and develop so fast, it is nigh impossible for available and limited conservationists to deal with them all. |
