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Show DAILY HERALD Saturday, June 21, 2008 Carbon Ramping up the state's portfolio in the coming decades and Continued from Al improving efficiency in homes The plan is aimed at reducand businesses will help cut ing emissions linked to global energy emissions, she said. climate change, which in Utah State officials are also exis expected to bring more heat pecting a prowaves, longer growing seagram for industrial polluters sons and earlier snowmelt. which hasnt been approved Other states have also set by lawmakers yet to also goals for greenhouse gas replay a role. DEQ officials said the program could be in place ductions, some more aggressive than Utah's and others by 2012. more limited. Traffic is the other key tar"We think that's appropriget. State officials are hoping to see significant pollution reate," Sprott said. "We have a very high growth rate in Utah, ductions by stricter emissions which certainly is going to standards starting in 2012, imt make it a lot more challenging proved systems for us to achieve reductions and enhanced than many other states." programs for businesses with d Utah relies on more than 100 employees. Friday's announcement power plants for about 85 doesn't establish any new polipercent of its electricity, accies or regulation but is a goal cording to Dianne Nielson, Gov. Jon Huntsman's energy for the state as it sets future adviser. energy policies and a list of renewable-energ- ways that target might be met, Sprott said. "It's one possible combination of policies. In the end, we'll probably end up doing different things as the situation changes," Sprott said. DEQ officials later this year hope to have a firmer grasp of the financial cost of reaching that goal by 2020. They said Friday that the costs are "not prohibitive nor will it disadvantage Utah business or y families." Ultimately, meeting that 2020 goal will require a broad set of policies "carrot and the stick," as Sprott described them involving governments, businesses and individual households. mass-transi- ride-shari- coal-fire- "It's a stretch for us but it's still doable, and we have a path to get there," Nielson said.: ' Radar on days when the weather has been bad, making visual confirmation difficult espeContinued from Al clearance cially since a The system to be installed is is needed to safely take off, not technically radar technolParker said. "Planes that are landed at ogy, but a "Beacon Interroga-tor-6- " a less expensive systhe Provo airport and want to tem that tracks planes up to take off have huge delays be- cause traffic controllers can't 9,000 feet by communicating with see them," he said. transponders, said Provo Chief AdministraThe negotiation process has tive Officer Wayne Parker, not been easy, Parker said. "It's not your traditional : The FAA was reluctant to apradar, but it is a system that's prove any new radar systems or comparable technology bedeployed all over the councause it's experimenting with try ," he said. "It's an affordable cost. It will meet all the new systems that may replace them in a few years. City requirements that we have, and it will meet them for some representatives had to travel time to come." to Washington, D.C., to plead The technology has been their case before the FAA needed for several years beacquiesced. cause Salt Lake City's radar "Around the country, capabilities are blocked by the they've kind of put radar on Point of the Mountain, effechold a little bit. The city and UDOT Utah Department of tively blacking out plane traffic information below 9,000 Transportation and others feet in Utah Valley. That has went to the FAA and said, led to long delays on Provo 'Here's all these reasons why conwe think we need radar in runways as trollers visually track where Utah County and what can be done,' " he said. "There have planes are, Billings told the council. been a number of air traffic accidents that could have been "Right now, they're basically using a chalkboard and prevented had there been a radar system in Utah Valley." binoculars," he said. "There are times ouUhere when it Finally, the FAA agreed - provided that Provo could gets to be pretty rockin? The real issues have come se the first $2 mjllion for d : Wayne Parker the project. City administrators got to work and secured $1 million through the UDOT's Aeronautics Division, $500,000 from the county, and $500,000 from the Mountainland Association of Governments, There was discussion about putting the system at the Point of the Mountain or in other locations, but Provo was ultimately chosen because facilities already existed from a temporary radar system installed for the 2002 Winter Olympics, Parker said. "Its location at the Provo airport is convenient, because we have a pad that's ready for it," he said. City spokeswoman Helen Anderson said the final deal should be signed next week, and the system should be operational by the end of 2010. I Ace Stryker can be reached 6 or at 344-255- Association, "a voice for the 20,000 duck hunters in the state." The group opposes the causeway, he said. "We can either put the lake on the road to recovery or, d continue to make decisions that foreclose its fustate: ture," he said in an ment. "These decisions will have consequences as tragic for the lake and the generations that now enjoy it and the future generations that could enjoy it as the once seemingly good idea of growing Asian carp in the lake." He said repercussions from a causeway could be dramatic, HIGH SCHOOL " t STEPHAN SAVOIA 'Associated Press where school officials say female students made a pregnancy pact during this past school year in Gloucester, Mass. A carved stone sign outside Gloucester High School, clinic's funding. : calls for comment. The superintendent said he had no independent confirmation of a pact. But he added: "What we do know is, there was a group of students being tested for pregnancy on a regular basis, which would suggest they were not taking steps to avoid becoming pregnant, and that when some of them had their babies, they appeared to be very pleased." None of the girls or their families have come forward to confirm any type of pact, and school and health officials have not identified any of the youngsters. The girls are all 16 or under, nearly all of them sophomores. The superintendent said they have been reluctant to identify the fathers, many of whom are older. But one of them "is a homeless guy," the principal was quoted as telling Mayor.Carofyn Kirk said Friday that there are many contributing factors to what she called a "blip" in the pregnancy rate, from glamoriza-tio- n of teen pregnancy in pop culture to cuts in funding that have reduced teachers and health classes in Gloucester. "We have fallen on hard times," Kirk said of her city, which has suffered in recent decades with the decline in the fishing industry that has defined Gloucester since the colonial era. Gloucester is the town that lost six fishermen in the 199 1 shipwreck that inspired the book and movie "The Perfect Storm." Its high school teams are known as the Fighting planned Pregnancy, suggested that some of the blame lies with the nation's I lolly culture, in which stories about pregnant celebrities wood-obsesse- d Fishermen. Student Council member Emily Spreer said many of the girls came from difficult socioeconomic circumstances: "Their circle or clique, they're not the most fortunate family-wise.- " ; Time. City and school officials in this town of about 30,000 people 30 miles north of Boston have been struggling for months to explain and deal "If you're a young person who really is struggling to find an identity for herself, absent the support and the guidance, it can become almost a default with the pregnancies, where option for some to become a on average only four girls a mom," said Patricia Quinn, executive director of the Mashigh year at the school become pregnant. sachusetts Alliance on Teen Just last month, two officials Pregnancy. "We need to do at the health center more for young people and show them more paths." resigned to protest the local Gloucester a heavily Rohospital's refusal to support a man Catholic town with a large proposal to distribute contraItalian and Portuguese populaceptives to youngsters at the school without parental con tion has' long been support 1,200-stude- abound. 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"I grew up in Lehi, so I have seen that lake every day, and it really did not mean a lot to me," he said. "I was an avid outdoorsman and I hunted, but I always kind of took it for granted." All that changed four years ago when he and his wife bought a sailboat, he said. "I'll bet we spend 20 nights a year out in the lake, ancLwe use it as our therapy," he said. "In those four years, I've seen what a treasure this lake is negative and "One need only need look out in the middle of so much north to the Great Salt Lake sprawL To see it cut in two to see what causeways do," would really be a loss." he said. "Water flow is cut off He called the lake a "treawith resultant effects on water sure of 96,000 acres of sailable chemistry, salinity and produc- water," saying that allowing a l tivity." causeway would be as sad as One side of the Great Salt seeing Mount Timpanogos cut Lake causeway, at Farmington in two. While economic developBay, becomes more prone to massive algae blooms while the ment is important, it should not Northern Arm becomes all but come at the cost of the lake, he said. barren, he said. "I think we would regret it, "The wildlife consequences and our kids would regret it," can be as massive and permahe said. nent," he said, "Causeways of this magnitude are not re 1 2422 0? ROME mm from A I chief administrative officer, Provo Airport mi ontinued from Al J - Pregnancy Continued "It's not your traditional radar." le Causeway GLOUCESTER . : A3 Draper rB 1 ' Email: I Mail or drop off entry form at the Daily Herald, the where Dailv Herald is sold, visit nur website www.heraldextra.com I For complete contest rules, visit 1 555 N. Freedom Blvd, Provo UT 84604 I www.heraldextra.commileymania |