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	<description>Keep Tar Sands and Oil Shale mining OUT of the U.S.A.</description>
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		<title>Front Line and Downstream Communities Call for Protection of Colorado River, Vow to Stop Canadian Company’s Bid For Tar Sands Extraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calgary, Alberta~ An unprecedented coalition of Utahns delivered a powerful message to US Oil Sands, Inc. today as investors gathered for an annual and special meeting of shareholders at the Calgary Petroleum Club: “US Oil Sands: We Will Stop You…Before it Starts.” Investors received a group photo from the alliance, with the picturesque backdrop of Arches National Park and the Tavaputs Plateau, and a promise protect their community.]]></description>
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		<title>Traversing the Tavaputs Plateau</title>
		<link>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/traversing-the-tavaputs-plateau/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Munger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by The Roadshow Crew The air is thin up here at 8,000 feet. I’m sitting near the site of the first tar sands mine in the country, P.R. Springs. The sun’s strength diminishes as it approaches the western horizon&#8211;snow capped mountains behind layer after layer of high desert ridges.  Somewhere in those folds, the Green River <a href='http://www.beforeitstarts.org/traversing-the-tavaputs-plateau/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Up With Spring: Field Notes from the Utah Tar Sands Roadshow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Munger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rodshow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tar snads road show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utah tar sands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tar sands strip mines are about to tear into the Book Cliffs of eastern Utah unless a grassroots movement can stop them before it starts.  And we’re building that movement right now. The Utah Tar Sands Roadshow is an educational presentation and listening project about the imminent threat posed by tar sands and oil shale <a href='http://www.beforeitstarts.org/up-with-spring-field-notes-from-the-utah-tar-sands-roadshow/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>US Oil Sands already destroying Tavaputs Country</title>
		<link>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/time-lapse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Main Canyon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We talk about stopping US extraction of oil shale and tar sands before it starts--well, we also need to remember an old backbacker saying: "It's always later than you think."]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Blog &#8211; Utah Tar Sands Road Show</title>
		<link>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/photo-blog-utah-tar-sands-road-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rodshow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canyon country rising tide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[notarsands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About &#124; Day One! The Roadshow kicked off with a trip down south to the Cedar City Idle No More Rally. We shared our story of building resistance to the Utah tar sands and heard stories from other struggles in the region. Big shout out the the brave Navajo folks fighting for their sacred lands <a href='http://www.beforeitstarts.org/photo-blog-utah-tar-sands-road-show/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Moab Light Brigade on Colorado River Bridge: No Tar Sands!</title>
		<link>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/moab-light-brigade-on-colorado-river-bridge-no-tar-sands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/moab-light-brigade-on-colorado-river-bridge-no-tar-sands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<title>Help Launch the Utah Tar Sands Roadshow!</title>
		<link>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/help-launch-the-utah-tar-sands-roadshow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/help-launch-the-utah-tar-sands-roadshow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beforeitstarts.org/?p=529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Utah Tar Sands Roadshow is a listening project and educational presentation about the impact of tar sands extraction on people, water, and the land.  Tar sands development is one of the most destructive industries on earth--and a Canadian company is bringing it to Utah unless we rise up to stop it before it starts.]]></description>
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		<title>Tavaputs Country Photo Project</title>
		<link>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/516/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/516/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art projects]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beforeitstarts.org/?p=516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Its mountainous skyline graces a zillion breathtaking photos. Its jagged blue-green pine-covered peaks rise out of sandy-colored cliffs to complete the rainbow of color that the canyon country is so famous for,  but it never gets the credit. Now, there are plans to strip-mine it for tar sands and oil shale]]></description>
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		<title>Investors Beware: Utah&#8217;s Tar Sand Deposits are Duds</title>
		<link>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/investors-beware-utahs-tar-sand-deposits-are-duds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/investors-beware-utahs-tar-sand-deposits-are-duds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kait</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impending US Tar Sands operations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Extreme Extraction]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beforeitstarts.org/?p=463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BLM: "This resource is not, at present, a proven commercially viable energy source, and the BLM would like to obtain more information about environmental consequences associated with its development prior to committing to broad-scale commercial development."]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Oil Sands Inc., and what could be the first tar sands mine in the United States</title>
		<link>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/u-s-oil-sands-inc-and-what-could-be-the-first-tar-sands-mine-in-the-united-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beforeitstarts.org/u-s-oil-sands-inc-and-what-could-be-the-first-tar-sands-mine-in-the-united-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impending US Tar Sands operations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beforeitstarts.org/?p=446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Background Two years of litigation by Living Rivers (our parent nonprofit,) Colorado Riverkeeper and Western Resource Advocates has so far  prevented the development of a proposed strip mining operation for tar sands. If U.S. Oil Sands Inc., (USOS) prevails in court, this operation would become the first large-scale mining project for the processing of tar sands in the <a href='http://www.beforeitstarts.org/u-s-oil-sands-inc-and-what-could-be-the-first-tar-sands-mine-in-the-united-states/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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