A Canadian company has received a state mining permit from the Utah Division of Water Quality to extract oil from tar sands on public land in the Book Cliffs area of eastern Utah. The Moab-based group Living Rivers opposes the project and has appealed the permit, citing a possible pollution risk to the Colorado River.
Tom Williams will talk with Uintah County Commissioner Mike McKee, University of Utah Professor William Johnson, John Weisheit of Living Rivers, and Rob Dubuc with Western Resource Advocates.
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