Letter: While Gov. Cox is changing his mind about things, 'why doesn’t he also kill the idea of a huge tax rebate and instead divert the already-collected funds to buy out alfalfa farmers in the Great Salt Lake Basin and turn the lands into solar farms.'
Besides, there are other operations in this country that extract strategically-important magnesium, mostly from seawater, which is in no short supply, especially with climate change elevating ocean levels. Let those pick up the slack since U.S. Magnesium is one of our state’s worst polluters anyway, and it employs a relatively small number of people.
But let’s do throw some state funds at helping them find new jobs, if their company can’t figure out how to turn its current evaporation ponds into covered distillation ponds so the water vapor can be recovered and put back into the lake. Are you listening, Utah Division of Water Quality Director John Mackey?
And while the governor is changing his mind, why doesn’t he also kill the idea of a huge tax rebate and instead divert the already-collected funds to buy out water-intensive alfalfa farmers in the Great Salt Lake Basin and turn the lands into solar farms. Most farmers’ descendants probably don’t want to continue farming anyway, but those who do should have to pay a hefty severance tax for any alfalfa they don’t feed to their own cattle but instead export outside the basin.
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