Sheer folly…
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With all due respect to the work and accomplishments of Red Rock Forests, and to the T-I’s accuracy of reporting, I cannot in good conscience agree that any “environmental endorsement” of oil and gas toxic waste dumping in Grand County [“Expansion of Danish Flats produced water facility,” Feb. 19, 2009] can or should be implied or proclaimed.

Such an errant and misguided course sends a green light to large-scale, local development of the most highly impacting and manipulative industry on Earth, to say the least. At a time when the entire planet is starting to realize the inconvenient truth that we have no future in fossil fuels, and that we must in fact radically curtail emissions and replace capacity with a renewable and peaceful energy economy, it is sheer folly to condone further oil and gas development in our regional watersheds and environs.

Such unplanned, unnecessary and piecemeal development is already significantly degrading our air, water and public health, and changing our local environment and rural quality of life, forever and for the worse.

Illusory concessions from “good corporate citizens” do not address the bigger picture of the regional and international devastation caused by our energy addiction and an unsustainable industrial paradigm that is undermining global ecosystems and indeed, human sustainability.

Moab and Grand County must do their parts in thinking globally and acting locally, to reject becoming a national sacrifice area for fossil fuels and nuclear development and expansion, while at the same time encouraging and proactively engaging a clean and green, localized, renewable energy and transportation economy model.

Our environment, climate, public health, rural quality of life, global ship of state, and community survival demand nothing less.

—Bob Lippman

Castle Valley
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