Show ADD OIL By LE ANN There have been approximately four hundred studies on our unique Great Salt The Wasatch Front Regional Council says one final study must be made before any action is Oil companies wanting to drill along the shores have given the State Land Board a or ultimatum in asking for permission for drilling CENTER V I LLE'S Mayor Ivo who is also Chair- The Great Salt Lake has been considered both nice and nasty over the Now oil rights are being How would the lake look with oil man ot the Wasatch Front Land and Water Use says he feels the state should not be rushed into He there is oil the offered by the oil companies now may be a drop in the bucket to the potential Possibly in a few years when oil supplies throughout the United States become at a the companies would be willing to offer several million dollars for the Money for is really not the it was brought out at the Wasatch Front Regional council George Director of Mountain Area Salt Lake is a nation and if we destroy it we may be very unhappy If you destroy it by trying to get the oil now you may be killing the goose before the golden LAKE COM is making a final study in an effort to correlate all the existing studies on the Many of these studies conflict and it is a monumental The study is taking much longer than originally It could go as much as one year longer than Oil drilling is not the only question being asked concerning the Great Salt The plan must include interests such as existing business and mineral RECREATION and aesthetics could be jeopardized by large oil derricks 60 or 70 of not to mention the possibility of damage due to an oil Water sports could be as well as a health hazard could be The council also expressed concern that drilling might have an adverse effect on the minerals of the It is estimated by some that the lake holds billion worth of Drilling through the hard crust of the lake may upset and render useless some of these Drilling and removing oil may cause a vacuum under the lake with unpredictable AT THE present time the lake is the scene of several industries amounting to million dollars Mills said the two oil companies wanting the drilling rights have offered which they propose to add to the State School They have given this offer on a now-or-never which doesn't seem to impress the lake even though they would like to have been able to help the school A letter will be written to Governor Calvin Rampton and the State Land Board asking for a delay in the granting of oil drilling The letter will ask for more time for the study and will point out the possibility of impacts which are immeasurable at the present A master plan will be made which will take into consideration all the phases of interests in the Ib |