MGE Professor Speaks to The Salt Lake Tribune

MGE professor Isabel Barton was quoted in a June story from The Salt Lake Tribune.

The story, written by Anastasia Hufham, explores the topic of clean energy and worker safety in uranium mining. Hufham spoke to Barton about the potential impact of rejecting clean energy solutions like nuclear energy and uranium mining.

“If we shut down our mines here because of understandable concerns about the legacy from the last time around,” Barton said, “that demand [for energy] isn’t going to go away.”

”People aren’t going to say, ‘All right, in order to minimize the demand for this type of energy that I oppose, I’m going to shut off the electricity to my house for one month a year,” she said. “We’re going to keep wanting the electricity.”