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Activists shut down first US tar sands mine project
Posted by Salt Lake Tribune: Christopher Smart on July 31st, 2013
Salt Lake Tribune: Several environmental groups protesting tar sands development in the Book Cliffs region of southeast Utah stopped work Monday on a road that will serve a strip mine to be operated by Calgary-based U.S. Oil Sands. Celia Alario, a spokeswoman for Canyon Country Rising Tide and Peaceful Uprising, said dozens of protesters had peacefully stopped road building on Seep Ridge Road and also interrupted mining operations at the East Tavaputs Plateau site. Protesters surrounded heavy equipment and, in some...
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Utah Protesters Decry Tar Sands in Chevron Refinery March
Posted by Salt Lake Tribune: Christopher Smart on March 25th, 2013
Salt Lake Tribune: They carried cardboard coffins and waved banners that screamed "Dirty Energy Kills" and "Stop the Tar Sands Insanity."
Some 60 hearty souls braved brisk March breezes Saturday to march one-third mile up a private road to Chevron’s Salt Lake City refinery. They protested tar sands development in eastern Utah and criticized the oil giant’s processing of Canadian crude from Alberta tar sands.
Later Saturday afternoon, however, a spokesman for Chevron said that although the Salt Lake City facility...