Well, if they continue to allow gas-drilling, which I would guess involves fracking, there won't be any sweet water left a few years from now.

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Our water came from wells and smelled strongly of sulfur. That shit wasn’t even a little bit sweet. After a shower I would smell like a matchhead.

Sweetwater County officials are a bunch of fucking snowflakes.

In the electric generating world no one is going to finance a new coal of oil project when wind, solar and natural gas are cheaper options. That's how capitalist markets are supposed to work; do more with less.

It’s just trona mines and gas and oil wells. Truckstops the size of small towns. Year-round fireworks stands.

The only nice things I remember from growing up there were a couple of small archeological sites and an area where some very nicely-preserved petroglyphs can be found.

It used to be a big railroad town.