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Show *Qo Environmental News Capsules Olympic Advisor Quits SALT LAKE CITY - Ivan Weber, a member of the Environmental Advisory .Committee to the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee has resigned, saying the 2002 Winter Games in Utah will be a “destructive force” on the environment. “The SLOC is willing to throw the environmental community baby out with the sponsorship bath,” Weber said in a letter of resignation. He noted that the Olympics is driven solely by greed. Weber criticized the SLOC for not listening to its Environmental Advisory Committee and putting environmental concerns at the bottom of its priority list. The SLOC has billedthe 2002 Olympics as the “Environmental Friendly Games.” Trading Places In Snow Basin SALT LAKE CITY- Opponents of the Snow Basin land swap, as well as US Forest Service officials have voiced criticism over a former Forest Service official going to work for Earl Holding, who will develop the Snowbasin resort. Gray Reynolds, former chief deputy of the Forest Service who was in charge of overseeing the land swap, giving Holding 1,320 acres at Snow Basin for grazing lands elsewhere, is now going to work for Holding at Snow Basin as general manager. Reynolds had _ testified before Congress and helped get the land swap bill, sponsored by Sen, Orrin Hatch and Rep. Jim Hansen, passed through both houses of Congress Federal restriction will bar Reynolds from any contact with the Forest Service for one year. But critics say thal isn’t likely Hatch Got Anti-Green Money WASHINGTON Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch has received $463,497 during a five-year period from political action committees that hope to roll back environmental regulations, the Sierra Club and The Environmental Working Group have reported. Also among those who received big money from anti-green PACs was Sen. Bob Bennett, who received $199,198, according to the report. The report alleges a direct connection between the amount of money taken by the senators and their votes on key environmental issues. From 1991 to 1996, US senators took $19 million from PACs representing bigpolluting industries, the report says The report was based on campaign contributions filed with the Federal Election Commission. Drilling the Monument National Conoco and the purchased numerous gas oil leases two years ago, before monument was designated by “ Zz wy AD President Clinton. Under conditions of the state permit, Conoco has one year to begin exploration. Oil company officials say if they find oil in the monument, they plan to extract it. But the real test of whether Conoco will set up drilling in the monument may be determined when the federal Bureau of Land Management decides later this year whether to allowing drilling on federal lands within the borders of the monument. Utah Wilderness Disappearing SALT LAKE CITY - There may no longer be 5.7 million acres of wilderness in Utah, according to the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Some areas that may have qualified for designation under the federal Wilderness Act may now be ineligible for such protection. Oil drilling activities north of Desolation Canyon in Uintah County, areas of Grand County that have seen mining activities and portions of Washington County that have been “chained” to tear out old vegetation. This comes as reports surfaced that SUWA and the Utah Wilderness Coalition might up their request for federal wilderness to 6.5 million acres. 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