Oil-Shale

This spring and summer, multiple action camps will take place on the Tavaputs Plateau, where the first Tar Sands and Oil Shale strip mining projects in the “USA” are getting started. To be effective, this resistance will need your support. We’re looking for donations of non-perishable foods, camping supplies, and cash. Can you put together a care package for us? Get in touch with us if you can: greatbasin@deepgreenresistance.org or send us a Facebook message.

Oct. 25-27: Stop Enefit! No Oil Shale Campout | Utah Tar Sands Resistance. From UTSR: " We with the Utah Tar Sands Resistance aren’t all about tar sands, you know. Eastern Utah has become a sacrifice zone for the Western United States in terms of destructive, toxic fuel extraction, and we’re standing up to say “No!” to extreme energies in the Uintah Basin–and that includes oil shale. Enefit, an Estonian government-owned company with some half-baked ideas about mining for oil shale in Eastern Utah (in order to produce Kerogen), is bringing the usual lines about “minimizing land disturbance,” “reclamation” of the land, and their “commitment to environmental stewardship.” ...