I believe the mining companies want the Bears Ears region for uranium and the Grand Staircase-Escalante for it’s coal. Whether it’s economically feasible at this time to mine either is questionable right now, but that can change. I doubt if Utah residents will see much, if any money out of the mining since they probably don’t own the mining rights. How much fracking will take place? I have no idea. In my mind fracking is incredibly irresponsible.
It would be interesting to see how much cash Utah’s politicians have taken out of the oil/gas/mining companies.
