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Yale Environment 360: Two environmental organizations are fighting a Canadian company’s plan to mine a massive reserve of oil sands in eastern Utah, saying the project would tax water supplies in what is already the U.S.’s second-driest state. In what would be the U.S.'s first large-scale oil sands mining operation, Calgary-based U.S. Oil Sands Inc. has already excavated a two-acre test mine at site called PR Spring and ultimately hopes to establish a sprawling, 6,000-acre mine as early as 2014. According to the Utah......
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Large Utah Tar Sands Mine a Threat to Region’s Water Supplies, Groups Say
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 16th, 2012
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