Show l lis bt is 7 t- t tI g I td p r 4 t. t J 5 11 r i tr js k T R 4 v s S 'S 1 t Pi Vt YZ r rr r NINETEEN NEW Main Street Christmas decorations such as the one shown here have been Vernal City and are ready to be turned on Saturday evening The decorations replace old ones used during previous years that had beyond the point of reuse The The decorations will greet shoppers and visitors as they drive and walk through the downtown shopping districts q Ij 1 i. i energy council i iea tackles ea e. e r I impact planning The White RI River ver Shale Project a joint venture group composed of Sun Oil Phillips Petroleum and Petroleum companies are lessees of tracts Ua and in Eastern Utah These tracts are approximately 44 miles by present highways U S. S 40 and State Highway 45 to Bona Bonanza za then six miles by county road to for a total of 50 miles The employment build buildup build up for construction of a mine and other facilities is projected to start in lat late 1976 or early 1977 Starting construction force Corce is estimated at employees and increasing until a permanent work force of 2300 by 1983 according to information gathered by the Uintah Basin Energy Planning Council TO HOUSE the work force new housing must be constructed constructed constructed con con- at some location which has not as yet been determined There are several factors which will need to be considered in making this decision front front- end cost for new employees for new facilities adjoining developed communities is estimated by many authorities at per person and an additional 1500 if in remote areas Front end costs costs' include government related costs such as sewers water roads utilities schools etc but not homes or commercial buildings CALCULATING this cost on the basis of 31 people per family the costs are and per employee Calculating the cost for a new community at a remote area for Cor 2300 employees the governmental governmental governmental govern govern- mental costs would be approximately approximately approximately ap ap- proximately The cost for the same number of people in n a present community would be or a savings of over Providing the transportation facilities are adequate to move employees to work in a reasonable time it could be assumed that 20 percent of the employees could come from local manpower This would reduce this front-end front cost by considerable amount in addition addition addition ad ad- but not in direct ratio as the cost of roads and some other facilities would not be changed IT BECOMES evident that decisions now made on how to proceed toward new community community community com com- d development will have a marked effect on the future of our present community and on the cost of government How do we make these decisions 7 Do we have the information information in in- formation to base our decisions on How and where do we get this information if we needmore needmore need needmore more Continued on Page 16 energy council Continued from Page 1 UNDOUBTEDLY Y we need a conceptual set of ot plans developed to cover a reasonable number of ot the alternatives with cost estimates attached to provide the base for tor the decisions we must make explained explained explained ex ex- a spokesman for tor the Energy Council Impact problems being faced by the Uintah Basin Association of Governments' Governments Energy Planning Council due to the oil shale development are being explored and the greatest problem seems to be how to get the needed front end money necessary ar to start projects to serve the oil shale Industry and related businesses The Inability of ot financial institutions to provide adequate investment funds for lor public facilities is as serious an Institutional institutional institutional in In- problem as that resulting in the shortage of private capital Without the expansion of public and private capital capital together the nations nation's en energy consumer will go unfulfilled unfulfilled unfulfilled un un- un- un fulfilled and Project independence Independence Independence In In- dependence goals unachieved The shortage of public resources is manifest i it i ithe the inadequate housing scho schooling l ng roads services and public facilities and utilities in the I impacted rural areas where the energy production is tatting taking place While no one can predict with certainty the shortfall that will exist by 1985 there is a that the shortage is large relative to the historical pattern of public capital flow into these areas Thus current techniques for pumping public ca capital pi tal into these a areas reas can only be judged insufficient New techniques must be found Moreover four circumstances circumstances cir circumstances cir cir- urgently compel the federal government private energy developers and the states and municipalities to act to reduce this shortfall COMMUNITY facilities and services in the production areas have a direct and immediate impact on the productivity of labor in these areas Labor living in service-poor service communities communities communities com com- is labor with high rates of absenteeism crime and anda anda a a poor poor social and personal Adjustment It is typically typicallY- high priced and char characterized by a high turn-over turn rate and low productivity STANDARDS of living in the residential areas available to workers in the energy industry have a decided impact on labor recruitment Many tens of thousands of new miners engineers construction workers and others must be recruited in the coming years for western energy industry Establishing a quality living environment nt in the production areas is the he key to recruiting a productive stable safety safety- minded work force western communities communities com corn tend to support energy development because it will give them the chance to grow and build a quality community an handed even-handed national energy policy must meet these expectations expectations expectations ex ex- ex- ex just as it must meet those of the consumer for an adequate reliable energy supply From another point of view to the extent that western communities must sacrifice their life style to the nations nation's energy appetite these communities communities communities com com- will expect the nation to impose on its energy hunger the self denial of a conservation ethic of comparable intensity It Itis I is only through such evenhandedness evenhandedness evenhandedness even- even handedness that western states and local governments can be expected to join joil hands with private Industry and the federal government in an effort to meet the needs WESTERNERS are just now examining the question of what the West Vest will get out of energy development and how economic disruption following the nations nation's ultimate shift shirt to a non- non fossil fuel economy can be avoided The development of high quality economically diversified diversified diversified diver diver- viable rural communities communities communities com com- is emerging as a key element in the popular ex ex- expectation expectation expectation for energy development and state and local policy makers are beginning to reflect these ex ex- ex- ex Federal and Industry industry industry in In- officials must develop similar concerns concern I |