The Bureau of Land Management is getting ready to open an enormous 3,500 acre strip coal mine in Utah, just along Bryce Canyon National Park’s borders.
Mining would pollute the region's clean water and air, flood Bryce Canyon's world-famous dark night skies with light, destroy wildlife habitat, disturb the serenity of the park with industrial noise, and generate toxic coal dust from hundreds of trucks hauling coal.
It would turn southern Utah into an industrial zone, jeopardizing tourism and community health. In addition to threatening all wildlife in the area, strip mining would
wipe out the southernmost population of the federally protected, endangered sage grouse.
Tell the BLM they should not be jeopardizing one of our nation's treasures – especially not for an outdated, filthy, and dangerous energy source.
SOURCE:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/bryce-canyon-utah-strip-mine_n_1257081.htmlKen Salazar
Secretary of the Interior
U.S. Department of the Interior
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