Visual Art An Oil Drilling Operation at Spiral Jetty
posted by on January 30 at 10:29 AM
Tyler over at MAN just forwarded a very worrisome letter from Robert Smithson’s widow, the artist Nancy Holt. To protest, respond today. It reads:
Yesterday I received an urgent email from Lynn DeFreitas, Director of Friends of the Great Salt Lake, telling me of plans for drilling oil in the Salt Lake near Spiral Jetty. The deadline for protest is (today) Wednesday, at 5PM. Of course, DIA has been informed and are meeting about it today.I have been told by Lynn that the oil wells will not be above the water, but that means some kind of industrial complex of pipes and pumps beneath the water and on the shore. The operation would require roads for oil tank trucks, cranes, pumps etc. which produce noise and will severely alter the wild, natural place.
If you want to send a letter of protest to save the beautiful, natural Utah environment around the Spiral Jetty from oil drilling, the emails or calls of protest go to Jonathan Jemming 801-537-9023 jjemming@utah.gov. Please refer to Application #8853. Every letter makes a big difference, they do take a lot of notice and know that publicity may follow. Since the Spiral Jetty has global significance, emails from foreign countries would be of special value.
They try to slip these drilling contracts under the radar, thatıs why we found out so late, not through notification, but from a watchdog lawyer at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, the group that alerted me to the land leasing for oil and gas near Sun Tunnels last May.
Could be worse. You could live in Alberta where they pump out more global warming emissions than the rest of the country reduces ... and legally can't be stopped from being d.c.w.ds
I've always wanted to go to Salt Lake and find Smithson's piece. I'd like to be able to find it without having to locate the oil drills first.
commerce always wins.
Won't be stopped - not in SLC - but, can build a structure to mask it.
By the way, Salt Lake is drying up, FYI. What do do with millions of tons of salt.
Climate change will reduce the unique and wonderful lake even faster.
No intervention from here.
@4 You make BILLIONS of tons of chips. Or french fries. Which are chips in England. And aren't French in France. And I'm not even going to start with crisps.
Have any of you been there? It is a glorious and strange landscape. I stood at the edge of red kool-aid like water lapping up onto white salt shores, next to dark black rocks with the most beautiful sky id ever seen. Huge foamy clouds skittered across the water in the wind. That place is magic out there...It would also be very very easy to build, drill, do whatever becuase there is nothing and no one around...save it!!!!
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