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‘It’s a losing battle’: Approved Tooele inland port developments frustrate local residents

Type: Article Author: Andrew Christiansen Category: Amplify Utah Language: *
Tooele County resident Chris Eddington, whose backyard borders the recently approved Tooele Valley inland port project, pets his pony on February 27, 2024. (Photo credit: Xiangyao “Axe” Tang)
a pair of cowboy boots, a plaid jacket and blue Levi jeans, Eddington said he’s frustrated with a recently approved inland port that’s on the other side of his horse stable. “If they’re gonna put manufacturing in, I got to worry about pollution,” he...
April 9, 2024

'A terrible idea': Groups worry new inland port will harm Great Salt Lake refuge

Type: Article Author: Carter Williams Category: KSL.com Language: *
leading a few dozen people through the hallways of the Utah Capitol, to deliver a pair of purple file folders to two Utah Inland Port Authority board directors. Each folder contains a petition against the port authority's proposal to approve the Golden...
August 17, 2023

Environmentalists say inland port site threatens Great Salt Lake

Type: Article Author: Ben Winslow Category: Fox 13 Language: *
Photo by: Mike Rank, FOX 13 News
CITY — Dozens of people protested at the Utah State Capitol on Thursday, calling on state leaders to abandon plans for an inland port project near a sensitive part of the Great Salt Lake. The Utah Inland Port Authority is proposing a hub near the Bear...
August 17, 2023

Why do so many inland port projects include Great Salt Lake wetlands?

Type: Article Author: Leia Larsen Category: Salt Lake Tribune Language: *
of the imperiled lake and the critical habitat it provides. Weber County is the latest local government to create an inland port industrial project, and it’s right next to the Great Salt Lake’s drying lakebed and critical wetlands. The Weber County...
August 18, 2023

Utah Inland Port board approves new wetlands protection policy. Here's what it does

Type: Article Author: Carter Williams Category: KSL.com Language: *
Deeda Seed, a senior campaigner for the Center for Biological Diversity, speaks at a rally held inside the state Capitol on Monday that called on the Utah Inland Port Authority to do more for Utah's wetlands. (Photo: Carter Williams, KSL.com)
SALT LAKE CITY — Members of the Utah Inland Port Authority's board of directors voted Monday to adopt a new policy that the agency says will help mitigate impacts to the state's vital wetlands as the state continues to grow. However, multiple...
November 9, 2023

Inland port proposes wetland protections near Great Salt Lake

Type: Article Author: Ben Winslow Category: Fox 13 Language: *
CEDAR CITY, Utah — The Utah Inland Port Authority is proposing dedicating some of its funding and land mass in Salt Lake City to wetland preservation along the Great Salt Lake. The port authority's executive director made the announcement in an...
October 4, 2023

Great Salt Lake wetlands are the latest battleground with the Utah Inland Port

Type: Article Author: Sean Higgins Category: KUER Language: *
Great Basin Water Network Deputy Director Chandler Rosenberg speaks at a rally at the Utah State Capitol promoting a new report that details potential impacts of development near wetlands critical to the Great Salt Lake, Nov. 6, 2023.
Opponents of the Utah Inland Port say the shipping and logistics hub is the single greatest threat to the Great Salt Lake’s wetlands. Stop the Polluting Port, Great Salt Lake Audubon, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, Great Basin Water Network...
November 10, 2023

SLC mayoral candidate Rocky Anderson answers 10 questions about Great Salt Lake

Type: Article Author: Rocky Anderson Category: Great Salt Lake Collaborative Language: *
practices for reducing GHGs, and how best to communicate about climate issues to local residents. 4. How do you view the inland port projects and the impact it may have on the lake? The Inland port project, as well as the alarming satellite port...
September 27, 2023

'Buffer zone' between Great Salt Lake and inland port gets financial backing

Type: Article Author: Ben Winslow Category: Fox 13 Language: *
May, when environmental groups approached Mayor Mendenhall with the concept and found her more than supportive. With the inland port project approaching the Great Salt Lake, the idea was to create a buffer between critical wildlife habitat, the lake...
November 9, 2023

SLC mayoral candidate Erin Mendenhall answers 10 questions about Great Salt Lake

Type: Article Author: Erin Mendenhall Category: Great Salt Lake Collaborative Language: *
looking step as some explore re-use of treated water, which would be terrible for the lake. 4. How do you view the inland port projects and the impact it may have on the lake? How the state’s inland port develops is critical to the lake’s health and...
September 27, 2023

Inland Port

Type: Tag Author: Heather May Language: *

Ogden mayoral hopefuls discuss potential policy related to the Great Salt Lake

Type: Article Author: Heather May Category: Standard-Examiner Language: *
the lake. For the past three years I have also supervised the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program. 4. How do you view the inland port projects and the impact it may have on the lake? Knuth: As recently as August of 2023, Weber County Commissioners have...
September 28, 2023

Ogden mayoral candidate Taylor Knuth answers 10 questions about Great Salt Lake

Type: Article Author: Taylor Knuth Category: Great Salt Lake Collaborative Language: *
in the xeriscaping of our property, the conversion of our taps to high-efficiency ones, and more. 4. How do you view the inland port projects and the impact it may have on the lake? As recently as August of 2023, Weber County Commissioners have laid the...
September 27, 2023

SLC looks to preserve a chunk of Great Salt Lake land as development encroaches

Type: Article Author: Ben Winslow Category: Fox 13 Language: *
a sizable portion of the area as a new "heritage area." It would help keep the area as a nature preserve even as the inland port and other development moves closer and closer to the Great Salt Lake. "Unfortunately, it’s only a natural area in name at...
May 23, 2023

SLC mayoral candidate Michael Valentine answers 10 questions about Great Salt Lake

Type: Article Author: Michael Valentine Category: Great Salt Lake Collaborative Language: *
do that. A rebuilt Great Saltair would be an international jewel of both Utah and our famous lake. 4. How do you view the inland port projects and the impact it may have on the lake? The inland port has been a disaster from its inception. It should have...
September 27, 2023

The five-year plan to get more water to Great Salt Lake

Type: Article Author: Heather May Category: Great Salt Lake Collaborative Language: *
that is how we focused in on another 7,000 acres of wetlands. A lot of wetlands are at risk of being developed through inland port proposals. What is the Trust's role, if any, in protecting those wetlands through this project? To date the Trust has...
March 14, 2024

Salt Lake City west-siders dealing with bad air are disconnected from their politicians

Type: Article Author: Saige Miller and Alixel Cabrera Category: KUER Language: *
A plane flies into Salt Lake City International Airport as an inversion settles into the valley, diminishing the air quality in February 2022. Many west-siders, who suffer the most from air pollution, don't know how to plead their case to decision-makers.
yields is limited, but she isn’t powerless. While she realized that Democrats weren’t going to prevail against the Utah Inland Port, slated to call the west side home, Romero said she and her party colleagues were able to negotiate an environmental...
August 17, 2023

A drying sea half a world away carries a message for those worried about the Great Salt Lake

Type: Article Author: Levi Bridges, KUER | Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune Category: KUER & Salt Lake Tribune Language: *
Fishing boats are left high and dry near the shores of the Aral Sea in western Kazakhstan after the industry disappeared in the early 1990s as the lake began to dry up. (Abduaziz Madyarov | The Great Salt Lake Collaborative)
Aral District, Kazakhstan • When Akshabak Batimova was growing up, her father left their village in western Kazakhstan each morning to fish in the Aral Sea — until recently, one of the world’s largest lakes. Batimova’s father returned home each night...
January 18, 2024

Dear Legislature: Here’s what you can do in 2023 to save the Great Salt Lake

Type: Article Author: Sofia Jeremias and Leia Larsen Category: Salt Lake Tribune Language: *
high quality bird habitat, said Heather Dove, president of Great Salt Lake Audubon. The area north of the proposed inland port is of particular concern. “I really think the state needs to step up and either buy that land outright and set it aside,” Dove...
January 3, 2023

'No single solution will cure the lake,' Great Salt Lake strike team report says

Type: Article Author: Ben Winslow Category: Fox 13 Language: *
dozens of people showed up to the Capitol to protest maneuvers by Utah political leaders to expand sites for the inland port project (a series of import-export centers designed to get goods through the state), which they say are encroaching too close to...
January 11, 2024

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