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Ecologist: A deal to give up 500,000 acres of public lands in Utah to the tar sands industry in return for 1.5 million acres of industry is a sacrifice too far, writes Alexander Reid Ross, as it disclaims the wider costs of massive water use and contamination in the headwaters of the Colorado River, already seriously stressed by drought. Lying 8,000 feet elevation, where the Green River and White River feed into the Colorado, the land forms a crucial watershed locale for the 30 million people who rely......
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Wilderness Society’s ‘Grand Compromise’ is a fossil-fuelled sell out
Posted by Ecologist: Alexander Reid Ross on April 7th, 2015
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