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Show v3 2- Get financial help from Robert Redford. I have sent him a copy of our Issues Paper and am preparing more material to send him on issues of re-authorization and costs. Since Redford was used effectively on the Kapairowitz Plateau coal issue, and since that development issue is very much still in the picture- with IPP and Utah Power and Light development at the Lynndyil site being the reason for the change of purpose of the Strawberry Collection System to that of M & I,and Kapairowitz coal supply to be • mutually developed by these companies;- could Redford be interested in testifying himself? We could supply him the information. While I intend to write him and suggest this, he doesn't know me nor has had contact from our CRCUP group. However, he does contact environmentalists he knows - to keep in touch with what is developing in Utah. (As you can see here, our CRCUP group is still wet behind the ears as environmental activists. We have a long way to go In developing our effectiveness. We are preparing a simplified brochure - on the lines of the CAP suit in Arizona for information purposes.) If NWF could follow-up the contact I make, on behalf of CRCUP, this would give Redford more confidence in providing his support on this issue. You can discuss this with Brent, if you like.I have been in continuing contact with him. 3. Work out financial support for someone to testify in a combination of sources. I have provided much background information to NRDC and to EDF - both El Ashry and Tom Graf. So - could funds be raised through contributions from - National Wildlife Federation, NRDC, EDF * Federation of Fly Fishermen, national level Trout Unlimited, national level National Audubon Society, national level (We have a State member but I doubt they have contacted the national organization. NAS paid for the Power Economic Analysis.) Robert Redford Jean Hatch - publisher of the Ogden Examiner (?) If the national groups and other prominant people could be enlisted, then we might get local support. I don't see this happening the other way around since our CRCUP membership still includes fly fishermen who are supportive of the State development policies. I have never raised monies nationally - only from friends to support wildlife habitat studies in Utah through Utah State University Development Fund association. If I'm to help on this, I need to understand contact procedures. 4. While I am not presently In Utah v/orking, pending my husband's recovery from spinal surgery (he's s:ill in the hosoltal in Madison) I am the Co-Chairman the Bureau and Interior deal with primarily. I am the most knowledgeable about all aspects of CUP development except economics. None of our members still are adequately informed about wildlife habitat issues, *While I am working actively with the Conservation Chairman, Sierra Club, Logan, Ut., the Sierra Club national level is inadequately involved in CUP. |
