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Show Community Comments... I'm holding short this week because I want to devote as much space as possible to comments from readers relative to my recent comments about power plants in the west. I'd particularly like to direct the attention of readers to the lengthy letter from Mrs. Virginia Talbot of Ferron, Utah. Mrs. Talbot, who has lived through the energy boom in that beleagured county, tells it like it is. Industrial development, while attractive to many who have lived on the edge of poverty for years, has its problems, unless closely watched. She enumerates many of those problems. In addition, she has some choice words for those outside experts who do such a nice job of telling Utahns how to live. sjt Governor Scott Matheson's involvement in the energy hassle this week has left me delighted. In as ' many words, the Governor told his Energy Conservation and Development Council to get off its duff and begin doing something. "Act, instead of reacting," he told the members, who have spent the past year trying to jump whichever direction it felt the federal government might jump. Utah has the capabilities of determining its own future. And if its case is strong enough, and its research is properly developed, it can pretty much chart its own course despite what the feds do in Washington. I'm glad to see the Governor involved. I hope he keeps cracking the whip. |