Category Archive For "Environment"
Why Wasn’t Treasure Mountain Listed as a Site to Remediate in 2007?
We’ve been searching the Park City School District website over the past few days to see if the EPA’s report on Treasure Mountain Junior High’s (TMJH) soil was posted. As you may know, the EPA sampled the soil late last year. The School District has said the results aren’t good; therefore, the soil has to be …
Has Anyone Seen the EPA Soil Report on Treasure Mountain?
We’ve been waiting to get our hands on the EPA’s soil report for Treasure Mountain. We emailed Dr Ember Conley a few days ago and asked whether we needed to GRAMA (government record request) request it. Her reply was: Hi, We will have an interview on KPCW on Tuesday, April 7th and a release of …
EPA Results on Treasure Mountain School Soil Will be Released April 8th
We reached out to Park City School Superintendent, Dr Ember Conley, to receive a copy of the EPA test results of Treasure Mountain Junior High School Soil. The EPA tested the soil in December and DR Conley recently stated that levels of some contaminants were elevated. In subsequent discussions we have heard school district personnel …
FEMA to Deny Funds to States Whose Governors Deny Climate Change
We hope Utah isn’t counting on any disaster preparedness aid from FEMA. It appears the government agency is going to begin denying preparedness funds to states that have governors who deny the existence of global warming. According to Think Progress, Utah’s Governor Herbert fits into that category squarely. Funds like these typically trickle down into …
If the County and City Ban Plastic Bags, They Should Ban Paper Bags Too
This morning, Recycle Utah’s Insa Riepen was on KPCW talking about recycling. She mentioned that the Town of Vail (in Colorado) has banned all single use plastic bags and is continuing her push for our area to do the same. This was proposed a few years ago and promptly died over concerns of how it …
Should We Try to Limit House Sizes Around Park City
Recently there has been quite the uproar over transportation and now there is an attempt to “solve the problem” of people driving in their cars. Should we make parking so expensive that no one will want to drive? Should we limit the cars that can come into Park City? Should we get rid of parking and …
Tesoro Pipeline On Hold
We just heard on KPCW that the Tesoro pipeline was put on hold on Tuesday. We don’t have any more information than that but as long as oil prices stay low, hopefully Summit County won’t have to worry about the pipeline.
Uinta Black Waxy Crude Prices Keep Falling
Uinta Black Waxy Crude is down 13% in the last week. On Jan 5th it was $32.04. Today it is listed at $27.89 per barrel. It has to be hard to make capital decisions for energy companies when your prices (and thus profits) are falling like a rock.
Is This Weekend’s Snow a View of the Future?
A friend mentioned to us this morning that we needed to listen to a radioWest interview with Jim Steenburgh, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Utah. She found his comments on how increasing temperatures will impact Utah snowfall interesting. He basically said that Alta and Snowbird would have a ski industry for a …
Will the Tesoro Pipeline Through Utah Be Postponed?
Oil prices plunged another 4% today to $56 per barrel. Yesterday we read about how that is causing US shale oil to become unprofitable to produce. Today the BBC reported that the UK’s North Sea Oil industry is in a state of crisis. That’s leaves us wondering how lower prices will impact Tesoro’s proposed pipeline through Summit County. It appears waxy …
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