One more sunny, mild day across northern Utah with light winds, then clouds roll in tonight. Salt Lake City 61°/42°, Ogden 61°/41°, Logan 60°/37°. No rain or snow expected today or tonight. Source: National Weather Service, forecast issued 11:31 p.m. MST Nov. 11.
Utah Projects
Intermountain sets a Nov. 17 groundbreaking for the new LDS Hospital downtown
November 11, 2026. Intermountain Health says it will break ground on the new LDS Hospital campus in downtown Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 17, with a free public celebration from 3 to 5 p.m. on the old Sears block. The replacement hospital will sit on about eight acres at 745 S. State St., and Intermountain says it decided building new would give it more flexibility and value than modernizing the current hospital in the Avenues. Planned services include women's and newborn care, emergency medicine, surgery, critical care, cancer care, imaging, heart care and a base for its flight and ambulance teams. Source: Intermountain Health newsroom.
Valar Atomics' Carbon County energy campus goes before planners tonight
November 12, 2026. The Carbon County Planning Commission holds a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday on Valar Atomics' conditional use permit for its Raceway Energy Campus, about 640 acres of state trust land near Wellington. The application, obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune, describes 40 to 120 small reactors plus a natural gas plant that would power manufacturing, labs and data center buildings until the reactors come online, along with transmission lines, battery storage and substations. Valar proposes limits on pile driving and blasting hours, road improvements and dust, noise and light controls, and says it will use no local water for construction or operations. Opponents plan to turn out in numbers. Source: Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune.
Interior secretary tours Fervo's Cape Station geothermal job near Milford
November 11, 2026. U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Fervo Energy's Cape Station in Beaver County on Wednesday, his first geothermal stop as a cabinet member. Drill crews there work two weeks on, two weeks off, punching wells more than 10,000 feet into granite, and one recent bore ran more than 18,600 feet. Cape Station makes about 33 megawatts today, Fervo plans to reach roughly 500 megawatts by 2028, and its CEO says the site could eventually produce up to 8 gigawatts if a possible Google data center nearby moves ahead. Milford's mayor says Fervo's subcontractors have helped house workers and bolster city infrastructure. Sources: Mark Dee, Deseret News; Mike Anderson, KSL.com.
Mining
Judge lets work keep going at South32's Hermosa mine in Arizona
November 11, 2026. A federal judge in Tucson turned down a request to halt federally approved work at South32's Hermosa critical-minerals project about 55 miles south of Tucson, so construction on the $3.3 billion Taylor zinc-lead-silver mine keeps moving while the environmental lawsuit plays out. Sundt Construction is construction manager at risk, including the $805 million process plant. Crews are extending an underground decline and sinking the main and ventilation shafts, and all flotation cells and major transformers are in. South32 plans another $1 billion in Hermosa spending in fiscal 2027 and is targeting production in the second half of its 2028 fiscal year. The Nov. 6 ruling does not settle the underlying claims. Source: Bryan Gottlieb, ENR.
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