BYU’s Grow the Flow chapter empowers students to share their voices
BYU’s Grow the Flow chapter is educating students and advocating for the Great Salt Lake through outreach, lobbying and community activities. The group is also questioning a proposed Utah data center’s potential environmental effects and calling for stronger safeguards, although the project’s location and developer are not identified.
BYU’s Grow the Flow chapter works to protect the Great Salt Lake by educating students, organizing service projects and encouraging residents to contact lawmakers. Chapter leader Maycen Robinson said the group seeks to make environmental advocacy accessible, while faculty adviser Ben Abbott praised students for organizing events and other activities focused on the lake’s future.
Students have also engaged Utah Sen. Keven Stratton over the environmental language of HB60. In response to a proposed Utah data center, Robinson said the chapter is scrutinizing the project’s limited public information and potential effects on the lake, local residents and the broader environment. She said data center development could proceed ethically only with substantial safeguards, but the article does not identify a specific site, developer or government decision.