Tar Sands South: First US Tar Sands Mine Approved in Utah

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desmogblog.com 26 Oct '12, 3pm

Tar Sands South: First US Tar Sands Mine Approved in Utah

The race is on for the up-and-coming U.S. tar sands industry . To date, the tar sands industry is most well-known for the havoc it continues to wreak in Alberta, Canada - but its neighbor and fellow petrostate to the south may soon join in on the fun . On Oct. 24, the Utah Water Quality Board (UWQB) approved the first ever tar sands mine on U.S. soil, handing a permit to U.S. Oil Sands , a company whose headquarters are based in Alberta, despite it's name. In a 9-2 vote , the UWQB gave U.S. Oil Sands the green light to begin extracting bitumen from its PR Spring Oil Sands Project , located in the Uinta Basin in eastern Utah. The UWQB concluded that there's no risk of groundwater pollution from tar sands extraction for the prospective mining project. Members of the public were allowed to attend the hearing but "were not permitted to provide input," according to The Salt Lak...

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