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| Debate stirred over 1st major US tar sands mine |
| 2011-04-12 |
| Alberta-based Earth Energy Resources Inc. aims to start with a roughly 62-acre mine here to produce bitumen, a tar-like form of petroleum, from oil-soaked sands. The Bureau of Land Management says Utah has an estimated 12 to 19 billion barrels of oil buried in its tar sands, mostly in the eastern part of the state, though not all of that would be accessible. |
| Posted by:Zebulon Thranter9685 |
| #6 I'd settle for cutting off their electricity, water and fuel. Let them rage by candlelight. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-12 19:44 |
| #5 #4 The Environweanies are going to *love* that. Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-04-12 15:22 Any Enviroweenie trying to interfere with this operation should be sentenced to work in the mine for five years. Maybe one out of 100 would actually learn something. That's about as optimistic as I can be. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2011-04-12 19:19 |
| #4 The Environweanies are going to *love* that. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-04-12 15:22 |
| #3 open-pit mines |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-04-12 15:16 |
| #2 So if they got at HALF of the LOW estimate of that oil-ish stuff, they would have a full year's worth of US oil imports (back-of-envelope-calculation.) Start drilling... or whatever it is that you do to a tar sand. |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2011-04-12 15:11 |
| #1 A crime against both Islam and Environment!!! |
| Posted by: gr(o)mgoru 2011-04-12 05:54 |