[CPEO-MEF] Utah energy corridors and encroachment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Congress wants quick approval of power corridors
Greens concerned: A report says one proposed route crosses Canyonlands 
in Utah

Tribune Staff and Wire Services
Salt Lake Tribune (UT)
May 24, 2006

Under orders from Congress to move quickly, the Department of Energy and 
the Bureau of Land Management will approve thousands of miles of new 
power line and pipeline corridors on federal lands across the West in 
the next 14 months. The energy corridors are likely to cross national 
parks, forests and military bases as well as other public land.

Environmentalists and land managers worry about the risk of pipeline 
explosions and permanent scarring of habitat and scenery from pylons and 
trenches. Military officials have expressed concern that the 
installations could interfere with wartime training.

But energy industry lobbyists and congressional policymakers said quick 
approvals for new corridors are vital to moving adequate power from coal 
beds, oil fields and wind farms in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho to the 
booming population centers of the Southwest.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3858263
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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