Posted on 05/28/2008 12:24:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Tanker trucks pass petroglyphs Wednesday, April 30, 2008, in Nine Mile Canyon northeast of Wellington, Utah. It is still unclear exactly how the increased dust and continued use of a dust suppressant in the canyon will affect the rock art. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
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Halliburton natural gas exploration vehicles sit stationed by the road where petroglyphs adorn the rock walls Wednesday, April 30, 2008, in Nine Mile Canyon northeast of Wellington, Utah. Over the last 4 years, about 70 wells have been evaluated and approved with another 60 or so allowed without a full environmental review. The Bureau of Land Management's newest proposal would allow up to 807 new wells to be drilled over 8 years. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
Hey, whatever it takes to stop any efforts to use the energy we have in our own back yard.
I guess in the thousands of years these drawing have been in the canyon ... there never once has been a dust storm ...
A few hundred thousand years more of weathering and they’ll be gone any way. DRILL!!!
“I had some people say it’s their last visit, they’re not going back,” Atwood said. “It’s just too dusty and too busy and they were looking for a more serene place to see rock art.”
Yeah, better some widows freeze to death in Maine than deprive rock enthusiasts of their “serenity”.
I'm not insensitive to the historic meaning of these carvings, but there's got to be a way to work around this.
Oil the roads..little to no dust..or pave it!
The petroglyphs could be protected if necessary. Probably the protection would be even better than what they have now just hanging out in the weather.
And a rain storm at some time after the dust storm to wash it all down!
lol.. agreed. I like how they managed to squeeze a shot or two of Halliburton in tho. ;-)
Of course, they have practically the whole rest of the state, which has been placed off-limits to anyone with a car, but hey....those city dwellers want their solitude...
Exactly. Let them go hang around at Escalante if they want solitude: just them and the clean coal Clinton sequestered to help his Indonesians buddies.
Give some of these “concerned hippies” some polyurethane and some paint rollers and let them have at it. I just hope the odor coming off the hippies isn’t more corrosive than the dust.
Simple solution - cut them off the cliff wall, house them in a museum.
As I recall from science courses, way back when, the natural forces at play in the world will weather rock faces, lay barren fields in which wildflowers now flourish, and fell mighty mountains with but the force of dripping water.
SO...can’t a creative, tree huggin’ engineer type come up with a curtain or other cover material that preserves these images?
If not, I’d suggest a lot of videos... We need to develop our domestic energy resources to free ourselves from our dependence on foreign oil, and stop the illogical process of paying own enemies, enabling them to continue their war on freedom and self determination.
And, BTW...I never like snail darters, anyway...
Good point. There have probably been hundreds over the time frame.
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