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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 16, 2000 Community 24 Utahs problems with Washington would multiply under Gore, says new book Washingtons habit of locking has no beliefs beyond getting up public lands and resources in elected, A1 Gore is a dedicated the West with little regard for environmental extremist, says local citizens will become even noted journalist and author Lee worse if Vice President A1 Gore Roderick. If he becomes Presisucceeds Bill Clinton as Presi- dent, Utahns and others in pubdent, says a new book being re- lic lands states almost certainly will face a lot more orders from leased this week. Unlike Clinton, who basically the Oval Office shutting them out from the natural resources 1990, and then head of the news they have relied on for genera- department at KSL Television in Salt Lake City. In 1994 he tions. Rodericks new book is Gentleauthored the critically acman of the Senate: Orrin Hatch, claimed biography on Hatch, a Profile in Character, Roderick Leading the Charge. A1 Gore has a dire view of the was Washington, D.C. bureau Newschief for Scripps League world, and if given the chance papers for 15 years, ending in he will project that view on the Purchase a 1 Year Sports Certificate and Your Watch Grow Interest i. or rest ofthe nation, says Roderick. He notes that Gore in 1997 signed a treaty in Kyoto, Japan, that commits the U.S. and other industrialized nations to sharply cut their reliance on fossil fuels, including coal, oil and gas, which Gore blames as key causes of global warming. The treaty has huge loopholes, says the author, including the fact that such countries as Mexico and China are not signatories. Leading analysts say the Kyoto treaty would simply lead U.S. companies to move their operations abroad to countries like Mexico and China, explains Roderick. The Argonne National Laboratory estimates that the Kyoto accord would lead 20 to 30 percent of the U.S.s basic chemical industry to move to developing countries within two decades, cut the number of steel producers by 30 percent, the number of steel jobsjby 100,000 and reduce U.S. petroleum output by Roderick noted that the Senate one-fift- "Ret e?; "T-Bird- s" h. must ratify all treaties, and while it has not acted on the Kyoto accord, ifGore becomes President, there is no doubt he will lean hard on the Senate to ratify it A preview of what Utahns could expect under a President Gore came in 1996 when the If administration Clinton-Gor- e created the 1.8 million acre NaGrand Staircase-Escalant- e tional Monument in southern Utah, with virtually no input from Utah officials or local citizens. The Kaiparowits Plateau 1 in- cluded in the monument is among the nations richest coal enfields, bearing vironmentally sound, coal that emits far less sulfur dioxide than dirtier coal now in use, writes Roderick in his new high-qualit- y, low-sulf- ur book. Andalex Resources was planning an underground coal The "Rebel" and A certificates are avail "T-Bir- d" $500 and the maximum amount is $100,000, f 0 1 your favorite football team and Watch the interest , ! 1 f31,2000.Tf m tr ins balance is , f :I i ts CD. Choose legible 1,: r 4 A r,o our team wins. rdcally increase 5 frV ; ; A 4 r. ivs r m Ts will iecT & ' if the "Rebels" win a bowl gat:: iv, A penalty fert low-sulf- ur high-sulf- A Conference Championship or invitation to the NCAA 25 extra basis points " mine there, leaving minimal scars on the earths surface, that would have provided nearly 500 jobs in Kane County, whose 9.3 percent unemployment rate was second highest in Utah. coal were If the blended with the dirty, coal produced in the East, it . "A is points. Hus, ere may , ... fee a ur would reduce air pollution by millions of tons of particulates. But Clintons action killed the proposed mine, making losers of local citizens and, ironically, a cleaner global environment. Rodericks book describes Hatchs attempts to check excesses of the OF SOUT IB 1 Ann? A V c Vrli mri;v i Member I Clinton-Gor- e ad- ministration in other areas as well, and includes chapters on Clintons impeachment. - Gentleman of the Senate ha s 375 pages, is published by Probitas Press, distributed by Evans Book of Salt Lake City, and is available at Canyon Book in Kanab for $19.95. |