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Show Our Senators Hatch and Garn made the "Environmental "Environ-mental Enemies List". Big deal, so they aren't ready to turn over and let the Sierra C lub and Friends of the Earth dictate to them. Probably there is no other thing those two radical environmental en-vironmental ' groups could have done to enhance the good senators more in the eyes of their constituents. - 0 - Kaiparowits is dead, IPP must forgo logical sites in Wayne County and transport coal for a power plant to Millard County if that proves economically feasible. feas-ible. Warner Valley faces an uphill battle all the way. In Beaver County Alunite is on the ropes because EPA says that air quality might exceed Class II standards for four to five days per year, when an air inversion would hold stack emissions in close to mountains. Undoubtedly at these times the whole west desert will exceed Class HI standards with or without alunite. UP&L, Phillips Petroleum and Rogers International still must undergo a rigorous environmental en-vironmental impact statement state-ment before a power plant can be built at Roosevelt Springs and Phelps Dodge molybdenum, still just a twinkle in their eye, must face the same. - 0 - Utahns like Garn and Hatch (you could add Cong. Marriott) Mar-riott) are fed up with absentee ab-sentee experts that are stopping stop-ping economic development in the name of ecology. P hooey, let's see them stop the wind that whipped down Milford's Main Street last week and the dust It car-red car-red that cut visibility to about 50 feet. That's a natural phenomum they say! Well, it's natural nat-ural for man to want to be able to feed and clothe his family. It's natural for the unemployed to wan.t a job. It's natural for industry to mine and develop natural resources re-sources where they find them, not have to transport them hundreds of miles at great expense, because some . so-called environmentalist might see a plume from a smokestack on his way to visit the parks. - 0 - So, Sen. Garn and Hatch, don't fret about labels. We know that you, like other Utahns, have no intention of turning Utah or the West Desert into a New York City or Los Angeles, or evenSalt Lake City, like these so-called so-called environmentalists who have messed up their own nests. But we also have no Intention In-tention of holding Utah in its so-called pristine state until they've made their bundle, bun-dle, and come to buy it from us. The worst pollution pollu-tion in the world is people pollution. And the worst of the lot are these so-called environmentalists who pollute pol-lute people's minds with unrealistic dreams. 0 - Been several asked about our 'beautiful person' column. col-umn. We felt that Christmas Christ-mas was a difficult period, when we should direct our thoughts to the most beautiful beaut-iful of all persons, Christ. The column will resume next week. 0 That little flurry of snow the past week didn't do much down in tle valley, and we haven't had a report from on the mountain, but we fear, Beaver County and Southern Utah has a long way to go before we can look back on the drought. We were most hesitant to suggest a Christmas prayer for the white stuff in last week's column. The last lme we asked for snow, back In 70-'71, we got about 30 inches of the stuff and it hit 2 5 below. We were Just hauling papers pa-pers to the Post Office about 1 :30 a.m. last Thursday when it started snowing. We thought boy! we did it again. However, it quit about 20 minutes later and that's all we got. A little 'skiff Monday didn't help much more. We're a little braver now, so let it snow! |
