Utah Tar Sands Resistance, Peaceful Uprising
and Canyon Country Rising Tide
PR SPRINGS, UTAH May 29, 2014– Land defenders have established a permanent protest vigil inside the boundaries of a planned tar sands strip mine in the Book Cliffs of Utah. The Canadian company behind the controversial plan intended to begin construction of the mine this summer, but people have vowed to stop it.
U.S. Oil Sands, of Calgary, Alberta, holds leases on 32,000 acres of land traditionally inhabited by Ute people but now controlled by the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.
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Utah Tar Sands Resistance, Peaceful Uprising and Canyon Country Rising Tide– as well as supporters from throughout the Colorado Plateau– have endorsed the protest vigil.