A small Canadian company has received approval from the Director of the Utah Division of Oil, Gas & Mining to proceed with its plans for a commercial tar sands mine in eastern Utah to develop.
But Calgary, Alberta-based Earth Energy Resources has yet to increase to 35 million U.S. dollars to finance the mine and the environmental activists are pledging their fight to block its development to continue.
“We work on our funding, but raising money for a project is difficult now,” said Glenn Snarr, president and chief executive officer of the earth energy. “But we have a number of perspectives, though, so we moved closer to introducing a shovel in the ground.”
Earth Energy received approval from a year ago from the staff of the State Oil, gas and mining sector to work its 62-acre tar sand deposit on the Uintah County-Grand County Line.
But opposition from environmental activists at the Moab-based Living Rivers and peaceful uprising forced the decision back in the hands of the division director John Baza, who ruled late Monday that his staff all the legal requirements for the granting of mining may follow.
Although the project is now technically only local approval of Grand County to launch, opponents still have the option to appeal the decision to Baza aboard the division and beyond that to the Utah Supreme Court.
Juliana of the peaceful uprising Williams said the environmental group has yet to decide whether they will appeal. She vowed that the group will continue its opposition organizes in Grand County to its objections known.
Environmentalists make the production of fuel from tar sands creates roughly three times the greenhouse production of crude oil. They also say that tar-Sands production two to four barrels of water consumed for each barrel of oil produced.
“This project has no real value or contribution to society,” John Wisdom, the conservation director of Living Rivers, said in a statement that was released after the decision of Baza’s. “The total amount of oil through the mine more than seven years of operation would cover only seven hours of U.S. oil demand – a small blip on the radar.
“But, it takes millennia to destroy them over the watershed to recover.”
Earth-energy states, however, the process is environmentally friendly and uses a citrus-based solvents to heavy oil, bitumen or the recovery found in tar sands.
“We can extract the bitumen into a more responsible way than has been done to date anywhere in the world,” Barclay Cuthbert, Earth Energy’s vice president of operations, explained. “We are excited to launch this project.”
source:sltrib
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