Plus, over 160 barrels of oil and thousands of barrels of contaminated water spill into Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Good morning! Here are today's temperatures: ☀️ 40 - 73° in Logan ☀️ 51 - 74° in Salt Lake City ☀️ 57 - 87° in St. George My colleague Emma Pitts compiled a list of ways to embrace autumn in the Beehive State. You can check out her guide here. This is my first fall in Utah. What are some Utah-specific fall activities that I should prioritize doing this season? Also on our mind: The guest artists for the Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert, the new theory for when humans first came to the Americas and if Puka Nacua can break even more NFL records this year.
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| Over 160 barrels of oil and thousands of barrels of contaminated water spill into Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument |
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| | A hiker exploring Alvey Wash in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument discovered pools of crude oil in September. Roughly 163 barrels of oil, the equivalent to seven dump trucks, had spilled from a well 17 miles upstream. In addition to the oil, over 6,200 barrels of produced water had also spilled. The Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining has inspected Citation Oil and Gas Corp. four times for spills or incidents — all of which occurred in Summit County — since 1992. But well files show that there have been over 30 Citation oil spills in the area during Citation's operation history. “This has been happening, unfortunately, on repeat for the past 40 years. This isn’t a one-off instance,” Landon Newell, an attorney who specializes in oil and gas issues for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance environmental group, said. “These spills are oftentimes discovered by hikers who are recreating in the area, they’re not always reported by the operator, and they’re not properly identified by the federal government.” On Friday, a spokesperson for Citation told the Deseret News he was preparing an updated statement, but it would not be available until Monday. |
Read more about the spill and the history of spills in the area. |
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