THE PLANS DWARF ALBERTA! Eastern Utah is a desert, so UTAH Gov grants 1000s of licences for tar sands, oil shale, and fracking. The only water available for this water sucking processes for extracting bitumen oil and gas require millions, yes, millions of gallons of water. Therefore, Utah Government is determined to Destroy Utah, the Green River, The White River, and the Colorado River.
I've been following this insanity for a while now. Here's what I have learned that has me convinced that the Utah Government is determined to destroy Utah.
I think once you read through these articles, you will agree that the
UTAH GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED TO DESTROY UTAH
And everything and everyone who depends on the Colorado for life sustaining water, at risk of being DESTROYED BY UTAH GOVERNMENT by allowing tar sands, oil shale extraction and refining, as well as 1000s of fracking wells along the Green and White Rivers which flow into the Colorado rivers.
ALL OF THESE ACTIVITIES WILL AFFECT THE COLORADO RIVER by slowing the flow of the Green and White Rivers to the Colorado river and by polluting all the rivers.
At the very least, you can bookmark this article to use as a resource if you decide to call up the UTAH GOVERNMENT DETERMINED TO DESTROY UTAH and ask this tar sands, oil shale, and fracking to STOP!!
Here are the links
July 28, 2012 - UTAHS Poison Ponds -8 Pictures Speak Volumes
The Utah Government decided to carry water for ALEC:
ALEC's model Sagebrush Rebellion Act is designed to establish a mechanism for the transfer of ownership of unappropriated lands from the federal government to the states.
Here's one picture taken from Google Earth so you can get the gist of what is being dumped in Utah's eastern desert BEFORE the huge projects recently licensed to proceed:
1. Fracking waste pond complex near the White River. This site is approximately .49 miles x .49 miles in size. The little things you see are truck containers. The ponds are very large.
December 16, 2012 - EPAs fracked up report - EPA outsourcing drinking water impact studies to nine (9) fracking companies.
In the past two years, 1000s of new fracking wells have been drilled, many on the shores of lakes, rivers, and even drinking water reservoirs in the deserts of Utah. North of Denver is now holier than Swiss cheese!
December 29, 2012 - If I were Lisa Jackson, I would have quit the EPA, too.
February 17, 2013 - PICTURES OF Utah's 32,000 Acre/50 Sq. Mile Tar Sand Project
Utah Sands Inc
The Company is in the pre-production stage, anticipating the commencement of bitumen production and sales in 2013.
...has a 100% interest in bitumen leases covering 32,005 acres of land in Utah’s Uinta basin.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
32,000 acres is equal to 50 square miles. The four squares in this Google Earth view equal 32,000 acres. Notice a bend of the Colorado River is in the lower, right hand corner.
March 25, 2013 - Colorado River Under Attack by Oil/Gas Industry
Salazar just ok'd another 700,000 acres for oil shale production near rivers that flow into the Colorado River in addition to 130,000 acres of oil sands production in the same areas. The Green River is the chief tributary of the Colorado River. What could possibly go wrong? Just about everything.
AND THE BIGGEST BOONDOGGLE OF ALL, thank you NOT Salazar and Utah Gov
June 13, 2012 - The Truth about Oil Shale: Estonia is an Economic/Environmental Failure
Estonia is being touted as the OIL SHALE SUCCESS STORY. It is not. It is an economic and environmental failure. It took decades for Estonia to find a way to refine the oil from oil shale, causes 80% of Estonia's pollution, and only functions because it is HIGHLY SUBSIDIZED by the government. It's a socialist business model.
Now Utah is about to be oil shale mined because "OIL SHALE HAS BEEN SO SUCCESSFUL IN ESTONIA" so out came my research hat.
The following is what I have found. What look like actual lies about oil shale production in Estonia made by those looking for investments in Utah oil shale production.
Jamess reported a nasty truth about the 1,000s of fracking wells being drilled as we speak in Utah:
July 9, 2013 - Fugitive Methane Emissions from Fracking must be Counted
I learned about this 'phantom problem' when watching Josh Fox's documentary Gasland II, last night. It's only a 'phantom problem' because the leaking Methane from Fracking is largely invisible (unless you light it on fire, of course).
BUT just because we can't SEE this Fugitive Methane leaking with unconventional Fracturing methods, that doesn't mean it will NOT have a BIG Impact on Climate Change. Out of sight should not mean, out of mind.
Williston, North Dakoa is now lit up like Los Angeles because
When oil comes to the surface, it often brings natural gas with it, and according to North Dakota's Department of Mineral Resources, 29 percent of the natural gas now extracted in North Dakota is flared off. Gas isn't as profitable as oil, and the energy companies don't always build the pipes or systems to carry it away. For a year (with extensions), North Dakota allows drillers to burn gas, just let it flare. There are now so many gas wells burning fires in the North Dakota night, the fracking fields can be seen from deep space.
The Vernal, Uinta Basin area of Utah is next up for total Alberta-like destruction.
It already has really badly polluted air.
July, 2012 - Groups sue EPA over air pollution in Uinta Basin
Salt Lake County has some of the worst air in the country already, too.
January, 2013 - PICS of SALT LAKE CITY'S WORST POLLUTERS: 5 Oil/Bitumen Refineries, HUGE Sand Pit, GIANT Copper Mine
How else can we conclude the Utah Gov intentions?
UTAH GOV IS DETERMINED TO DESTROY UTAH
But, alas, maybe there's hope. I love these dedicated people! I don't think John will mind if I share this article in full with you:
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS TO BE RELEASED. TODAY IS THE DAY THE PEOPLE FIGHT BACK in COURT
Utah Tar Sands, Oil Shale Refinery Challenged
SALT LAKE CITY— A coalition of conservation groups on July 22 filed a “request for agency action” challenging the Utah Department of Air Quality’s June 21 approval of a new oil refinery in Green River, Utah that would affect local and regional air quality and facilitate oil shale and tar sands mining in the Colorado River Basin’s Green River Formation.
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that between 353 billion and 1.146 trillion barrels of oil in the Green River Formation “have a high potential for development,” which is 2 to 7 times as much as Alberta’s 170 billion barrels targeted by the Keystone XL pipeline.
“The public needs to understand that the Colorado River Basin’s carbon bomb dwarfs Alberta’s,” said Taylor McKinnon, director of energy with Grand Canyon Trust. “In addition to polluting Utah’s already-dirty air, this refinery is another step toward massive strip mining, greenhouse gas emissions and Colorado River drying.”
The groups are challenging the department’s June 21 issuance of a permit approving the plant over several alleged violations of the Utah Air Conservation Act. The challenge was submitted to the Utah Department of Environmental Quality and will be heard by an administrative law judge, and potentially later the Utah Supreme Court.
“To experience clean and crisp air in the Green River Desert today, you have to wait for an infrequent thunderstorm to sweep the haze, dust and smoke away,” said John Weisheit, conservation director with Living Rivers. “Only then can you actually see the features of the Book Cliffs, the San Rafael Swell, and the Henry and La Sal mountains.”
The refinery would emit volatile organic compounds, other hazardous pollutants and greenhouse gases while creating now-absent local capacity for processing up to 7 million barrels of heavy crude annually in the heart of Utah’s oil shale and tar sands country.
“People travel from all over the world to enjoy the stunning vistas at Arches and Canyonlands national parks as well as Dead Horse Point,” said David Garbett, a staff attorney with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. “It makes no sense to risk compromising the remarkable views this region offers with visibility-reducing pollution from this refinery.”
Oil shale and tar sands development entails strip mining and dangerous energy and chemical inputs to melt and extract fuel. Greenhouse gas emissions stemming from oil shale and tar sands development far exceed that of conventional oil development. In March the Bureau of Land Management allocated more than 800,000 acres of federal public land in the Colorado River Basin to oil shale and tar sands development.
“Given all of Utah’s current pollution problems under the Clean Air Act, it makes no sense to further harm public health and exacerbate climate change,” said Bill Snape, senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity.
Groups filing today’s request for agency action are Grand Canyon Trust, Living Rivers, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and the Center for Biological Diversity.
You can read the
entire Request for Agency Action here.