I also think is there enough oil in Utah to be economically extracted even with fracking technology? The Bakken, Permian and Marcellus fields are vast in size and that may make fracking to extract out oil and natural gas a lot more profitable.
It has been reported that there is one trillion dollars worth of coal in the region. It will be removed underground, not by strip mining. THe number of jobs and the tax revenues to the state of Utah will be large.