At a time when the West desert is fighting to keep Clarke county from taking their precious water supply, the state of Utah is planning to build a nuclear power plant. The site would be right on the Green river, and would (they say) give electricity to Salt Lake's growing edge cities. The big push for this now comes because many in Utah are out of work so the idea is to create jobs and energy for Utah. Well does anyone remember IPP? This was a project just outside of Delta Ut. that was supposed to do the exact same thing. I seem to recall that the IPP project was proposed during a bit of a recession as well. Well IPP ended up being a smaller plant, so less employees, and the best part, the electricity generated went to Nevada and California.
So what guarantee do we have that this power plant will create more than just temporary construction jobs? The answer is, none we have no way to prove that the jobs will stay or that the energy will stay with us.
So we are just supposed to hope for the best. There is a group fighting this plant, they are an environmental group who are worried about the corruption of the water supply.
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