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Eugene

(61,903 posts) Fri Aug 21, 2015, 02:32 PM Aug 2015

1st US Tar Sands Mine Set to Open for Business in Utah

Source: Associated Press

1st US Tar Sands Mine Set to Open for Business in Utah

BOOK CLIFFS, Utah — Aug 21, 2015, 1:52 PM ET
By BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press

On a remote Utah ridge covered in sagebrush, pines and wild grasses, a Canadian company is about to embark on something never before done commercially in the United States: digging sticky, black, tar-soaked sand from the ground and extracting the petroleum.

The impending opening of the nation's first tar sands mine has become another front in the battle across the West between preservationists and the energy industry.

U.S. Oil Sands has invested nearly $100 million over the last decade to acquire rights to about 50 square miles, obtain permits and develop what it says is a brand-new, non-toxic method of separating out the oil with the use of an orange-peel extract similar to what's in citrus-scented household soaps and detergents.

"We're dedicated to having the world's most environmentally responsible oil sands project ever built," CEO Cameron Todd said in a boast that has failed to reassure protesters.

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1st US Tar Sands Mine Set to Open for Business in Utah (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2015 OP

Well that's fucking depressing n/t arcane1 Aug 2015 #1

Non-Toxic, from orange peels, then they should release the exact compound. TheBlackAdder Aug 2015 #2

And all of the water for cooking this crud Wellstone ruled Aug 2015 #3

Im starting to doubt that notion that civillization can be maintained with alternatives NathanSharp Aug 2015 #4

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

1. Well that's fucking depressing n/t

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 03:05 PM

Aug 2015

TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)

2. Non-Toxic, from orange peels, then they should release the exact compound.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 03:35 PM

Aug 2015

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Everything on this planet comes from something natural, at one point or another.

When they release the exact compound and chemical makeup of the solution, allowing independent labs to take random samples of the mixture for analysis... then I might believe it could be harmless.

If it's locked up as a proprietary solution, bound by NDAs, then I'll know this is bullshit!.

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Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

3. And all of the water for cooking this crud

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 03:43 PM

Aug 2015

comes from the Green River. Hey,it is Utah,business friendly which really means,dump your toxic waste right over there in that old unused Wash. BTW,this POS is visible from I-70,can't miss the signage. Thank You Orin Hatch and their new chief lobbyist Jim Matheson,this too will come back to bit the Utahan's in the butt.

NathanSharp

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4. Im starting to doubt that notion that civillization can be maintained with alternatives

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 03:16 PM

Aug 2015

They sometimes parade alternatives to the public, but its really just to passify people, to make them think something is changing, while we continue to exploit the planet in more or less the same way they have been.

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