Salt Lake Tribune: Culture Vulture: City Creek’s promise begins to show – The reflecting pools weren’t reflecting much on Friday, as the winds bouncing between the twinned 10-story buildings of Richards Court churned up the water into a succession of waves. In calmer weather, these reflecting pools will look up at the promised glory of City Creek Center, the massive shopping/office/residential complex The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is building in downtown Salt Lake City. (Sean Means comments specifically on the water features that run throughout the new City Creek Redevelopment Project. The water features installed as part of the ‘open space, green development’ plan are not an actual daylighting of the historic southern fork of City Creek, but they do show how water can be used to augment and beautify an urban setting. It should be quite a nice place to visit. The food court even has a Red Iguana III! WOOT!)
KCPW: Author, photographer, document reemergence of Glen Canyon – The construction of the Glen Canyon Dam to create Lake Powell in the 1960s monumentally changed the landmark on the Utah-Arizona border as it was flooded with water from the Colorado River.
Via Water Conserve and The Guardian: Shell fights shareholders’ campaign for oil sands review – A group of institutional investors, led by campaign group FairPensions, had tabled a special resolution ahead of the Anglo-Dutch company’s annual meeting next month. They want Shell to review the commercial and environmental viability of going ahead with its new projects in Canada’s boreal forests.
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