Two legislators talked about progress on policies related to saving the Great Salt Lake and touted how the Legislature has “fundamentally reshaped things' during the first day of a biennial forum on issues surrounding the lake.
Two lawmakers talked at a forum about policies to save the Great Salt Lake, saying the Legislature has ‘fundamentally reshaped things’
“The current Bear River pipeline that’s on the books isn’t likely to happen and probably shouldn’t happen,” Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, told a group gathered Wednesday for the first day of the biennial That development is a state-sponsored plan to store 220,000 acre-feet and support growth in northern Utah. Conservative estimates say it couldHis comments Wednesday confirmed that as he and Snider expressed optimism about the Great Salt Lake’s future.
Snider specifically cited provisions allowing leases of water and “certainty at the bottom level of the lake level as it amounts to evaporation and extraction.”He acknowledged that the Legislature’s new policies haven’t pleased everyone, and criticized some Utahns for what they’ve done while the Legislature has tried to “shift big policy items.
Public trust doctrine requires the state to address water use imperiling the Great Salt Lake and other trust resources, said Stu Gillespie, a senior attorney with the organization’s Rocky Mountain office. Gillespie added that three dozen “respected law professors” agree with Earth Justice that the state hasn’t done so.
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