This winter Utahns finally may get to seriously discuss a couple of the biggest questions confronting the state: energy development and its impact on the environment.Kathy Biele of the City Weekly offers a closer look at a proposal recently put forward by state Rep. Roger Barrus, chairman of the Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Committee, to examine Utah's energy potential in depth.
Barrus has joined with Bjørn Lomborg, a Danish economist, above, who founded the Copenhagen Consensus Center that tackles the earth's health and economic challenges, to bring together a panel of energy/environmental/economic experts. The group will explore in detail the cost of aggressively developing Utah's energy sources that include coal, oil, natural gas, coal shale, geothermal and wind.
The potential of the panel's work, of course, could be undercut by politics. Environmentalists fear the deck is already stacked because Lomborg is a high-profile skeptic of global warming.
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You didn't mention that the state is paying him $300,000 to come and dowse the legislature with further skepticism about global warming. Like they needed that! Our tax dollars at work.
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