The area of Salt Lake City carved out for the inland port has been mother nature’s celestial kingdom for antelopes, birds, and insects for millennia. But the attempt to “upgrade” it into the economic celestial kingdom of the state — in other words, a lot of money for special interests — will be anything but heavenly. Among the many reasons, it will likely involve an unprecedented use of toxic chemicals exposing residents throughout the Salt Lake Valley.
Recently, entire medical societies have made strong official statements regarding the danger of even small doses of many chemicals and their link to obesity, cancer, heart disease, birth defects, reproductive pathology and brain disorders such as Parkinson’s, impaired intellect, autism and attention deficit disorder.