Opponents continue to characterize Stratos as a billionaire vanity project to loot Utah’s vast natural resources with little consideration for how it will affect residents.

Utah State University physics professor Robert Davies told Fox 13 that the Great Salt Lake “is occupied by amazing living systems” and that “projects like this go into environments like this and scrape the living systems right off the face of the Earth.”

He said, “This is a private enterprise that is coming in to extract from our natural wealth and pipe it out of the state… and leave us with a few crumbs.”

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    13 days ago

    Vote fascists to local boards, fascist things happen. Learn not to vote for people who can’t see the environmental risks because they are motivated by money over everything else.

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    Opponents continue to characterize Stratos as a billionaire vanity project to loot Utah’s vast natural resources with little consideration for how it will affect residents.

    That… Is actually a really accurate description of what’s happening. Also, you might look at the levels of corruption in your councils that approved this even though NOBODY wants this. Who got bought with how much money to vote against what everyone wants?

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      This is the moment we need solidarity. Just because circumstance has put them on our side we shouldn’t push them away. Just remember that the second this is over they’re going right back to ignorance.

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    13 days ago

    I wonder how much the lake depletion along with the insane amount of heat exhausted by this thing, will affect the already struggling snow fall in the Wasatch mountain range (Alta, Snowbird, Solitude, Brighton, Sundance, Snowbasin, Park City, and Deer Valley resorts)