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Originally Posted by RFPCME
...Third, I thought the comparison of the Calgary skyline with the SLC skyline was amazingly ironic. Where did the Calgary skyline come from, most of it in the last 25 years? One place...the development of unconventional energy resources...in this case, tar sands...although different, remarkably similar to the energy laying underneath the Green River Basin with reserves far exceeding what is in Canada.
...I just spent a couple of hours trying to detail the issues facing oil shale development in the Mtn. West over on the Western Energy thread. The more I wrote about the issues, complex and vexing, the more I realized that they will be solved because so much is at stake.
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I agree with much of what your said RFPCME. For me, the most important point is to understand that the cycles of the past are being broken. This is not the Salt Lake City or Wasatch Front of your grandparents, or even your parents. This Metro is establishing new benchmarks, and raising the bar ever higher. This is a Salt Lake City who's world presence will continue to accelerate, even over the next ten years. No more quaint, provincial capital. This is a metro that not only will acquire a few new stores along the CSA, but also the store's manufacturing and distributing headquarters.
For some, there is comfort in cynicism. If your cynical or negative about the future, then you'll never be disapointed. I would imagine there would have been a lot of naysayers, if we were to look back just fifteen years. What if we had made a list of all the major projects, such as the Grand, Gateway, CCC, TRAX, FrontRunner, Resort expansion, and on and on? If a few of us had said, "These are some of the changes that I think will occur over the next fifteen years along the Wasatch." Well, there would have definately been rolling eyes, and 'non e possibile' from a few.