(Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune ) Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, in the Utah House of Representatives, Wednesday, February 22, 2017. Noel, the Utah Legislature’s most ardent booster of the taxpayer-funded Lake Powell pipeline, holds sizable yet undisclosed financial interests giving him a direct personal stake in the controversial billion-dollar water project, according to new claims filed Friday by an environmental group.