New threat to Great Salt Lake? Mineral company wants to extend its canals.
Environmentalists worry that siphoning off more water is exactly what the shrinking lake doesn’t need.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The US Magnesium dike north of Stansbury Island on Saturday, March 26, 2022. The company wants to extend its intake canals.
Leia Larsen is a sixth generation Utahn and a water and land use reporter reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune. She has covered environment, energy and political issues throughout the West. When she’s not chasing the news, Leia can be found exploring the Wasatch Mountains, sleeping in the desert or rooting around her garden.