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Longtime negotiator defends role in Snake Valley

Posted by: Maven on November 8, 2009 at 6:09 am

From the Deseret News:

“He was the first to fight it 20 years ago and is now in the middle of a dust storm of controversy, accused of dancing with the devil, of turning Judas on his neighbors.

A proposed Nevada pipeline project like some sort of Whack A Mole! game keeps cropping up at different junctures in Mike Styler’s career. And while he believes he has tried to be a voice of reason in the bitter Snake Valley fight, his attempts at compromise don’t sit well with those who believe Nevada shouldn’t get one drop of water from the arid valley’s aquifer.

“A lot of them think that maybe I am traitor to Utah,” Styler said.

The fight for water first popped up in 1989, when Styler was chairman of the Millard County Commission, and again in mid-2000 when he was in the state Legislature and co-chairman of a water task force, and yet again in his current role as executive director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources.

“What’s lost in this is that I started the fight, the gloves have been long off,” he said. …”

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November 8, 2009 · Filed Under Las Vegas & Nevada

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