Monday, March 07, 2011
Utah's Kaiparowitz Plateau
As our dependencies on foreign fuel suppliers increase and as energy prices continue to rise, consider this...
Archibald Bard has a story to tell at APFN.org:
"The New York Times reported that the monument encloses the largest coal field in the nation, the Kaiparowitz Plateau, which contains at least 7 billion tons of coal worth over $1 TRILLION.
Kentucky-based company Andalux Resources, which holds leases on 3,400 acres in the area, was planning to open a huge operation (underground, not strip mining) that would have generated 1,000 jobs, $1 million in annual revenue for Kane County, and at least $10 million a year in state and federal taxes, according to the New York Times."
