Proponents of a massive dredging project on Utah Lake have sued one of the project’s leading critics, alleging he has made false and defamatory statements in “a misguided and wrongful campaign” to turn the public against the island-building project.
, public presentations and social media, the company alleges in a suit filed Jan. 10 in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court. The suit seeks at least $3 million in compensatory damages and an award for punitive damages. It pledged to donate any proceeds to conservation organizations.
Abbott is a young, energetic and widely admired assistant professor known for speaking out on environmental issues. His labReached Tuesday, Abbott declined to comment because he had yet to obtain legal counsel. He was served with the suit only hours before he spoke at Tuesday’s Utah Lake Summit co-hosted by Rep. Keven Stratton, R-Orem, at Utah Valley University.
Meanwhile, the project’s initial proponents, brothers Todd and Ben Parker, along with their lead designer Robert Scott, are no longer publicly involved, replaced by another pair of brothers, Ryan and Jon Benson, as CEO and COO, respectively, and a new engineering firm. Rather than take on the academic scientists’ core concerns, the lawsuit singles out factual claims — such as the source of the project’s funding, taxpayer exposure and lack of scientific support — Abbott has made over the past two years. LRS took particular exception to Abbott’s claims that it “has no scientists on its team” and that “no researchers are willing” to work on the Utah Lake project.
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