A Canadian oil company wants to turn this:

[Subdivisions]

...and this...



...into this...



Any questions?

http://www.peacefuluprising.org/first-us-tar-sands-to-break-ground-in-utah-20100319

In Grand County, Utah, people are thirsty. Utah is a desert state; it’s a thirsty place. What we love about Utah is its unique, gorgeous, otherworldly geography, which keeps us coming back or sticking around. So explain this logic to me: a horrifying and unprecedented project could put Utah’s Canyonlands National Park and Glen Canyon Recreation Area at serious risk, while at the same time thrusting a new source of water-depleting, CO2-billowing, filthy, and geographically destructive (but pseudoprofitable!) business into the equation.

I’m talking about the first ever bona fide tar sands extraction project in the United States of America–right here, in my own backyard!

You might have heard about the tar sands extraction happening in Canada. This nightmarish debacle has transformed countless acres of priceless Canadian biodiversity into a sticky black cesspool, for primarily America consumption. Don’t take my word for it; do a simple Google image search for “Canadian Tar Sands.” After you’ve done that, imagine the effect these proposed tar pits would have on the land immediately adjacent to the sites. Now picture that land as Canyonlands National Park. I’m not making this up.

The citizens of the areas where the proposed pits would be created have had absolutely no say in the permit acquisition and decision-making surrounding this project—and the pits might potentially break ground this year. Did I mention the entire operation would be run by Canada-based Earth Energy Resources? The company made their excited announcement in November of 2009, although Grand County citizens weren’t made aware of the impending project until this month.

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[joeybee12]

1. Top two photos--this is your brain; last photo- this is your brain on corporate-mind-altering,

politician buying, drugs.

[Oregone]

2. Hell, its what a bunch of multinational corporations did to Alberta

So if we're still slurpin up the good ol black stuff, why not?

[MissMarple]

3. Oh, my God! The oil industry is run by orcs.

[Electric Monk]

4. Is your main objection that it'll be done in Utah or that it'll be done by a Canadian company?

I didn't think there were any non-multinational oil companies left, anyway? All the big players have fingers in lots of pies.

[Subdivisions]

5. My objection is to it being done at all, regardless of where or by whom. Jeez! I can't

fucking believe I had to respond to such a question.



Edited to remove offensive adjective.

[Electric Monk]

9. Well, you included it in your headline, so it seemed you thought it important.

Nice attack. Trying to get your post deleted so you can't even reply to your own thread?

[Subdivisions]

10. Deleted because I said your question was stupid? Would that change

the fact that it was so?

[Electric Monk]

11. And my point was including it in your headline if you thought it unimportant was.

Thus, my question, but I didn't have to resort to insults.

[Subdivisions]

12. I just wrote a headline that fit my post. Get over it. If you have

anything to say about the content, rather than presuming shit about me (whom you should know by now and know better than to ask such a question), then I would love to hear it.

[Ross K]

17. I think this is what the guy in the other thread was talking about.

[Leopolds Ghost]

14. Do you support this project? Is this a done deal?

Mining for oil and gas is a Peak Oil proposition.

[Subdivisions]

15. Yes, it is. But you can't talk about Peak Oil around here. It's taboo. n/t

[TrogL]

6. the "priceless Canadian biodiversity" was a muskeg swamp

[Leopolds Ghost]

13. Your point being?

I've BEEN to the Athabasca. I've seen the tar sands underfoot. We're talking wilderness areas that most Americans have no clue about what wild life is supposed to look like.

[BeHereNow]

7. Did you see the documentary "Gasland?"

They are fracking all over the US.
Nothing, nada about the damage being done
has been made public.
"Gasland" is the closest thing I've seen to anything close to
exposing the pillaging.

It's pretty terrifying, what these companies are doing to the planet.

BHN

[arcane1]

8. I've been to Canyonlands, one of the most beautiful places...

I've ever been to. This will piss me of royally.

[ZombieHorde]

16. Recommended. nt

[Motown_Johnny]

18. how in hell are they doing that in a national park?

Is this something Bush sold on his way out the door?