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- INVENTORY OF TAR SAND DEPOSITS IN UTAH
- ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD OF UTAH DIVISION OF OIL, GAS & MINING (UDOGM)
- ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD OF PROPOSED STRIP MINING @ PR SPRINGS
- ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD OF UTAH DIVISION OF WATER RIGHTS @ PR SPRINGS (State Engineer)
- ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD UTAH DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY (DWQ) for PR SPRINGS
- TRANSCRIPTS OF HEARINGS FOR PR SPRINGS STRIP MINING OPERATION
- ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ADMINISTRATION (EPA)
- BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
- CORPORATE WEBSITES
- DOCUMENTS
- ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES
- GEOLOGY
- LEGAL DOCUMENTS
- MAPS & GIS
- SITLA
- NEWS
- NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
- PHOTOS
- TRADE ASSOCIATIONS
- UNIVERSITY
- UTAH GOVERNMENT
- VIDEO
- WILDLIFE
Oil shale and tar sands remains a speculative industry in the arid lands of the Colorado Plateau. A general lack of water is why the industry will never be viable. Even if alternative chemical washes are used to separate bitumen from sand, for example, it still requires 1.5 to 2 barrels of water to refine a single barrel of oil. What this extraction will accomplish is physical damage to the Colorado River watershed, which supplies culinary water to nearly 30 million people. It will also create more CO2 in the atmosphere, which is the #1 killer of the Rocky Mountain snowpack, which provides 85% of the Colorado River’s total annual water supply. Our watershed needs investors to create a reliable energy supply that will heal the water supply of the Colorado River, not destroy it.
