Global Warming Report: Mike Noel, Utah Leaders Do Nothing, Don’t Care- About You
With the exception of Governor Huntsman, Utah Republicans don’t give a crap about you, the environment, your power bills or anything that involves something other then the legislature and those it really serves: powerful special interests like utilities, construction companies, the fossil-fuel and mining industries. That’s why the release of the new report on global warming and its effects on the western U.S. drew nothing but scorn from Utah’s lead idiot, alleged Representative Mike Noel R-Kanab.
Despite the fact that most of the symptoms of excessive fossil-fuel consumption already exist here i.e. increased respiratory and childhood illnesses, hotter summers, longer droughts, he and his fellow incompetents insist nothing should be done and the report is just more hooey coming from the radical environmental movement. OOPS! This is a federal report done by the Bush Regime’s own EPA. Are the only remaining Bush supporters in America going to tell their boy that he’s wrong?
If that happens, maybe they’ll even find the brain cells to see how wrong he’s been about Iraq, homeland security, Social Security, immigration, stem cell research, North Korea, China, energy, the economy, the environment and virtually everything else life consists of.
Naaaaaaaaahhhhhh.
July 18th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Mike Noel represents the MAJORITY of the people he serves including myself. That is why he wins elections. Maybe you should make a trip to Kane County Utah and see what the intelligence of the extremist environmental movement has done to our forests and economy. You say you represent the new west but as far as I can see you only represent a few radical people who came here from somewhere else. My family has lived in the west since the first pioneers came to this part of the US. My father, grandfather and great grandfather, ranchers all, added their foresight and talent to make this part of the country not only pristine and beautiful but productive as well. They quietly worked to SHOW what they believed in. They didn’t sit on their behinds and complain about what everybody else was doing. You could take a lesson from them in my opnion.
July 18th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Thanks for commenting. I have been to Kane County and it’s lovely. I think Mike Noel might represent your area very well also. And your family is to be commended for its achievements. But times have changed. We can’t burn all the coal as we want anymore and breathe. We can’t burn as much gasoline as we want and not jeopardize our nation’s independence. We don’t have enough water to cool a nuclear reactor. The energy realities have changed and Utah can either join the party or sit at home and lose to California, Arizona, Nevada, etc. in developing solar, wind and Utah’s abundant renewable energy sources. In his leadership role, Mike Noel must do the right things by all Utahns, not just Kane County.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:33 am
First of all, I’m not convinced Noel does represent a majority of the people who are in Kane County–or the other parts of his geographical large district (about 6 counties fall into District 73, a fact most don’t think about). The main reason he has won elections is that he runs unopposed. The one time he had to run in a primary, he won by under 300 votes, a very narrow margin indeed. This time, however, he at least has to run against another candidate and we’ll see if his recent stands on the environment, the Lake Powell Pipeline (a very unpopular idea around Kane County and elsewhere), dragging abusive boyfriends through the sage with a posse, and selling off Kane County’s water to a nuclear power plant builder in the most blantant form of conflict of interest are in fact things admired by his constituents. And yes, I live in Kane County too. The belief that people come in from “somewhere else” and that all those people are “extremist environmental” is short sighted. Those things that Noel wants to have happen–mining, a nuclear power plant, and the Lake Powell Pipeline will result in many more people coming to this area–undoubtedly the very people you seem to not like because they haven’t been here for generations. Ranchers represent a tiny percentage of the economy in this area. TINY. And their average age is over 60, so it’s clear that ranching is not a significant part of this economy. Uranium mining, another of Noel’s pet projects, is not a way to take care of the land, it’s a way to exploit it. And, like oil, it’s a finite resource. In truth, tourism and small businesses are the backbone of the southern Utah economy. Sadly, Noel pays little attention to this fact. His fear of the federal government is reflected in his very predictable knee-jerk reactions to every federal program regardless of its origin or impact. The times, they are a-changing. It’s a blessing that there are those who see this part of the world and love it enough to stop the rape and plunder and short-sightedness of its “pioneers” before it, too, goes the way of other parts of the world that were not protected from those who wish to make quick money.
July 20th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Thanks for joining in the conversation. I hope that on this coming Pioneer Day that we not only salute the accomplishments of the founders of the great state of Utah, but understand that this no longer 1847. The same determination, hope for the future and hunger for progress must now go beyond the mere survival of humans. I hope our inventiveness, work ethic and faith extend to the entire planet and all its inhabitants- yes, including the people, red rocks and wilderness of beautiful Kane County. And that Mike Noel and the rest of us will make the right decisions based on our knowledge and common sense, not our political and economic ambitions.