Thank you for publishing Leia Larsen’s article, “A landfill on the tip of the Promontory cape on the Great Salt Lake is on the verge of opening for business” (Tribune, Aug. 18).
I am deeply concerned about any landfill development near the Great Salt Lake shoreline, especially Promontory Point Resources’ landfill on Promontory Peninsula. By issuing PPR (an out-of-state company) permits without requiring groundwater modeling, the state is demonstrating that greed and short-term economic development trump long-term economic stability and public health.
Environmental concern about Great Salt Lake’s hemispheric importance to millions of birds should be enough to stop this landfill.