Fwd: 1st US tar sands mine set to open for business in Utah

USRS. GRS

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Petro, climate change, environment, tar sands

Dr. Michael D. McDonald

Coordinator
Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance

Chairman
Global Resilience Systems, Inc.

President
Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.

Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com
202-468-7899

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> From: Margery Schab <mschab@aol.com>
> Date: August 25, 2015 at 10:51:30 AM EDT
> To: michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com>, Gina Angiola <gangiola11@gmail.com>, Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com>
> Subject: Fwd: 1st US tar sands mine set to open for business in Utah
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> So the fossil fuel heads are in the "sands” pun intended. Marge
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>> From: bernard handler <berniehandler@yahoo.com>
>> Subject: 1st US tar sands mine set to open for business in Utah
>> Date: August 24, 2015 at 11:13:10 PM EDT
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>> 1st US tar sands mine set to open for business in Utah
>> 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. Across the rolling green hills of the Book Cliffs of eastern Utah , about 165 miles from Salt Lake City , the company plans this fall to begin digging the first in a series of pits, each the size of a football stadium, and start unsticking oil from the sand that crumbles in your hand like a brownie.
>> http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4538f6d59b2f44e792ddc4447388d3fb/1st-us-tar-sands-mine-set-open-business-utah
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