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...such question: should the federal government encourage resorts that use up huge amounts of energy and spoil remaining forest and park lands? In its EIS, the Forest Service claimed that failure to develop Mineral King could leave as much as one-third of the 1985-86 Southern California skier demand unaccomodated. (Subsequent public comment showed that this statistic had been computed incorrectly). It is at best questionable whether a country trying to cut energy consumption should feel obliged to meet a demand for skiing with a resort that draws 22 million kilowatts per year, or about 40,000 barrels...
...Mineral King resort would also sacrifice scarce wilderness for the benefit of the affluent. According to the Sierra Club a week for two in Mineral King would cost about $600, while the same trip to a major ski resort in Utah, including air fare from Los Angeles, would cost $580. Even the Forest Service's EIS admits that travel prices, "not counting food and lodging, are prohibitive to use of the proposed development by low income people and create to some extent, economic barriers even to moderate income families...
Somehow, in spite of environmentalists' success in blocking the resort, Mineral King's transition from an issue pushed by public pressure to one backed by legal maneuvering is discouraging. Of course the controversy has had its good moments: for one, the Disney Corporation has learned its lesson, is letting the Forest Service handle the project, and is concentrating on its plans for a resort near Lake Tahoe with the advice of the Sierra Club...
...Last Resort...
...Soviet government is afraid to let people emigrate freely, he said, because it would allow scholars to pressure the government for academic freedom by threatening to leave Russia as a last resort...