Sep
19
Tar Sands Strip Mining in Utah:
What’s at stake? What are the risks? What are the alternatives?
Public presentation by John Weisheit
Conservation Director of Living Rivers & the Colorado Riverkeeper
Saturday September 24th @ 2:00 PM
Salt Lake City Downtown Public Library
400 South 200 East
Basement conference rooms A and B
Sep
06
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE for Info 801-699-1856
September 6, 2011
Chevron Settlement Totally Unacceptable
Mayor and Governor Ignored Impacts to Community Health
in backroom deal with Chevron
A new announcement by Mayor Becker between Chevron, Salt Lake City and the State of Utah imposing nominal fines upon the multinational oil giant is being widely criticized by members of the medical community, volunteers from the City’s Oil Spill Working Group and other local residents.
It appears that no money has been allocated to address the long term health impacts to residents exposed to carcinogenic oil spill fumes, which is baffling given that two dozen doctors wrote both the Governor and the Mayor over 3 months ago specifically asking that a well-funded longitudinal health study be implemented and paid for by Chevron.
Sep
06
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PRESS RELEASE |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 6, 2011
Chevron, Salt Lake City and State Announce Proposed Agreement to Settle Oil Spill Claims
Pipe Line Company agrees to $4.5 million payout
SALT LAKE CITY – Salt Lake City, the Utah Department of Environment Quality – Division of Water Quality and Chevron Pipe Line Company jointly announced today that an agreement has been proposed to settle claims resulting from the two crude oil spills which occurred in 2010.
Under the terms of the agreement, Chevron Pipe Line has agreed to the following payments:
A 30-day comment period will be provided for the public to submit written comments to the State on the proposed settlement agreement.
Sep
02
Utah’s urban water use is consistently the highest or second highest in the country. Utah’s per capita water use is more than twice the national average and water use in the Salt Lake
keeping the sidewalk well watered
Valley is higher than virtually all major Western cities, including Las Vegas (Gasp!)
Somewhere between 65-70% of water use in our cities happens outside the home and for lawns and gardens. It is widely estimated we could reduce 25% of our use without removing a single blade of grass.
One of the consequences of this waste is that water suppliers urge State legislators to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in new, yet completely unnecessary water projects we don’t need. No amount of data, information, or reduction in water use appears to change their minds. They argue we are “running out of water” and scare us into paying for water projects we don’t need.
