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Show Thursday, July 3, 2008 Hatch, Conmd unveil bill to em energy crunch Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) today introduced legislation legisla-tion to expand the use of clean coal technology in Utah, North Dakota and across the nation, a move the Senators say will help put the country on a path to energy independence. Hatch and Conrad unveiled un-veiled the Carbon Reduction Reduc-tion Technology Bridge Act of 2008. This legislation legisla-tion would create tax incentives in-centives to encourage private pri-vate research into clean coal technology. "Many have called for U.S. leadership in reducing reduc-ing greenhouse gas emissions," emis-sions," Hatch said. "The first step is to lead the world in the technology to manage our carbon emissions. emis-sions. With this legislation, Senator Conrad and I seek Sena te Republicans unveil Gas Price Reduction Act Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) today joined Senate Sen-ate Republicans to debut groundbreaking energy legislation, the Gas Price Reduction Act of 2008, to address the high price of gas and provide a balanced approach to our country's long-term energy needs. The four provisions of the legislation include expanding ex-panding deep sea exploration, explora-tion, repealing the Democrat Demo-crat moratorium on oil shale, increasing research for plug-in vehicles, and strengthening the U.S. futures fu-tures markets. Bennett addressed ad-dressed the oil shale provision provi-sion in the bill and urged Congress to allow the development de-velopment of what is potentially po-tentially 800 billion to two trillion barrels of recoverable recover-able oil in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. Bennett's comments from the press conference follow: "Senator Vitter said that 85 percent of the available avail-able area for offshore exploration ex-ploration is off the table. One hundred percent of the area available for exploration ex-ploration for prospective oil shale is off the table because there is a moratorium mora-torium put in place by the Democratic Congress in the last session that says the Department of the Interior In-terior can't even draw up the rules under which exploration ex-ploration will take place. Nobody is going to play a game in which there are no rules. So by effectively preventing the drawing up 410 South 450 West Springville,Utah 84663 801-489-9676 DOG & CAT When you're out of town, rest assured your pet is having a good time with us! We provide pets with loving care, proper nutrition and plenty of exercise in a safe and healthy environment! Veterinary Supervision Individual Outdoor Walls Group Play Individualized Feedings Indoor & Outdoor Runs Heated & Air Conditioned Facility laili ilittl WtHmwmmmf. to put our nation in a leadership lead-ership role when it comes to reducing our carbon footprint in the electricity sector. This bill will provide pro-vide strong tax incentives to the electricity industry to demonstrate and use advanced technologies to capture and then sequester seques-ter carbon emissions." Added Conrad: "Our nation is in the midst of energy and environmental environmen-tal crises. Not only must we make every effort to develop and utilize domestic do-mestic sources of energy, we must also ensure we are protecting our environment envi-ronment by limiting the carbon we emit. This legislation leg-islation helps make coal a viable, clean and domestic energy source while taking tak-ing needed steps to reduce greenhouse gas emis of the rules for the leasing process they have made sure that there will be no exploration on federal lands with respect to oil shale. Fortunately in the state of Utah there is some activity ac-tivity going forward. In Utah there is a pilot project which we expect to bring forth sometime this year, not at some future point, but this summer. It is going go-ing forward because it is on state land and not under un-der the jurisdiction of the federal government. The pilot project will demonstrate that there is proven technology that can produce oil from shale. There are over two trillion barrels potentially available avail-able for oil shale. Even if you narrow that down to what is technically available avail-able using present technology, tech-nology, and not anticipating anticipat-ing any further progress in technology, there are 800 billion barrels of technically tech-nically recoverable oil in eastern Utah, western Colorado, Col-orado, and southern Wyoming. Wyo-ming. But the only demonstration dem-onstration project going forward, because of the moratorium, is that which is going forward on state land in Utah. In this bill we repeal that moratorium and make it possible for people to begin to examine the possibility of oil shale on federal lands as well as state lands. When you raise this issue is-sue of leasing lands, we hear people say, "Well, Dr. Harold Judd Davis D.V.M. Veterinarian BOARDING! I tm m n j SPRING VILLE HERALD sions." Incentives to fine-tune the carbon sequestration process are particularly important, Conrad noted, as the nation moves to- ward energy indepen- dence while addressing the impact of global cli- mate change. Coal is used to generate roughly half of all electric- ity produced in the United States. . Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm; it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a trea sure and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. - George Sand there are all these leases out there that are not producing. pro-ducing. Why don't we make people produce off of the existing leases before we give them anymore?" And they're also saying, "The oil companies are hoarding hoard-ing this. Let's get a position posi-tion of 'use it, or lose it.'" That sounds very logical except that the federal law right now is 'use it or lose it.' If an oil company leases federal land right now and does not start producing oil within the ten year period pe-riod of the lease, the lease expires and the land comes back to the federal government. govern-ment. One of the reasons you're not seeing oil on some of that land is quite simple, the oil isn't there. They leased it in the hope that it would be there. They didn't find it, so naturally natu-rally they are not produc Tapeworms in Gsh at Scofield Anglers at Scofield Reservoir Res-ervoir may find what appears ap-pears to be lengths of white ribbon in the trout they clean. At times, a strip of wiggling white thread may also be seen in the trout's eye. If you see this in the fish you catch at Scofield or anywhere in Utah, the fish you've caught probably has Asian tapeworm. There's good news, though - if you cook the fish properly, the fish is safe to eat. Asian tapeworm is carried car-ried by birds that eat fish. Because Asian tapeworm is carried by birds, they have a broad geographic distribution. distri-bution. Tapeworm is found at waters in Utah, and waters wa-ters across the nation. Birds are the tapeworms' primary and most important impor-tant host. Tapeworm is spread when birds shed tapeworm eggs in their feces. The eggs are then picked up by tiny aquatic animals known as zoo-plankton. zoo-plankton. Fish get the "h full service Issitr esi testrettsr ysrd" 492 North 1103 Wsst, hpn, UT 84551 (E51) 373-1063 Open to the public! Lumber Trusses -iscuvmy Doors & Best Ssrvki S SBA offers WASHINfiTDN.. TVia WASHINGTON-- The U.S. Small Business Administration Ad-ministration (SBA) has introduced two new free online finance courses to help small business owners with the basic principles of finance and borrowing. The new self-paced courses, Finance Primer: Guide to SBA's Loan Guar anty Programs, can be found at http:appl.sba. govsbtnregistrationin- dex.cfm?CourseId29 and How to Prepare a Loan Package at http:appl. sba.govsbtnregistration index. cfm?CourseId28, walk business owners through steps that answer questions about what debt financing is, what loan programs are available, what small businesses should know about bor- rowing money, how to prepare a loan package and how loan requests are reviewed by lenders. "It is important for the SBA to provide information informa-tion tools to help our nation's na-tion's entrepreneurs who ing it. With oil shale we know the oil is there. We know the potential is there and no one is going to examine exam-ine it until the rules are drawn up. In this bill we repeal the moratorium so the rules of the game can be laid down. Then billions of dollars will be invested to play the game and it will not just be on state land where we get this oil. - We can get up to 800 billion barrels relatively quickly with provable existing ex-isting technology. It's time we get going on that. It's there for the taking; we need to take it." The Gas Price Reduction Act of 2008 is cosponsored by 44 Senate Republicans and will be placed on the Senate calendar for further fur-ther consideration and debate. de-bate. , i worm by eating the zoo-plankton. zoo-plankton. Then birds eat fish that have the worm, and the cycle continues. Once a tapeworm gets into a fish's intestinal tract, its eggs burrow into the fish's gut and develop in the fish's body cavity. Fortunately, the Centers for Disease Control and the Utah Department of Health have verified that tapeworms do not present a health risk to humans. Birds, fish and zooplankton are the tapeworms' only hosts. 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