Another Water Crisis Unfurling: Tar Sands Development Coming to Utah?

AlterNet: Much of the more than 2 million barrels of oil Canada sends south every day comes from the tar sands of the Athabasca region in Alberta. The ongoing tar sands boom in the area has been called an environmental crime of enormous proportions, and there are hints that some of the dirty processes required might be heading south as well, to the Uintah Basin in Utah. Several companies have been operating small-scale projects in tar sands areas mines in Utah. Now, Earth Energy Resources has ......

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