More than 1,000 people signed a petition asking the Utah Inland Port Authority to pause before providing funding to an industrial project on wetlands near the Great Salt Lake.
Environmentalists were worried when the Weber County Commission approved a 903-acre inland port industrial project on sensitive wetlands and bird habitat on the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake.
He noted that the land in Weber County already allowed for industrial use and the Inland Port Authority would not change that. “What the port does bring is additional protections for existing wetlands and the lake; in addition to additional protections the inland port also brings funding,” he said. “Significant public harm will be caused by paving over, destroying and impairing thousands of acres of Great Salt Lake’s biological wetlands,” Seed told the authority, “and to add insult to injury, taxpayer dollars will be used to subsidize this destruction.”
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