The glow of public service
In the wonderful world of Utah development, a state House member Mike Noel and a former rep Aaron Tilton are cooking up a deal that would suck up billions of gallons of Green River water to supply a proposed nuclear power plant — and coincidentally make themselves rich.Noel, a Kanab Republican who is also the chief of that area's water district, applied to the state for permission to transfer water rights from Kane County to Emery County to slack the thirst of the two nuclear reactors that Tilton, a former lawmaker from Springville shown at right, hopes to build near Green River. Tilton began pushing for the nukes when he served on the committee that regulates energy development.
By the way, most of the power produced by the Green River-quaffing reactors would go to California.
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I guess "conflict of interest" is a concept that ends at the state border. This is the worst kind of conflict, where a couple of guys manipulate their public trust to make themselves and their cronies rich. In a banana republic, this would end up with them rotting in some jail; in Utah, they are respected members of the community. Go figure.
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