Calgary-based company wants to develop in the U.S.
from FFWD
"A Calgary company is set to be the first to mine oilsands in the U.S., but that won’t happen if a coalition of American environmental activists has its way.
"US Oil Sands Inc. has been working since 2003 to begin extracting bitumen from its 80-square-kilometre lease in the forested Uintah Basin region of northeast Utah. The company expects to be producing 2,000 barrels of oil per day by early 2014.
"However, since it began the first field tests of its unique production methods in Utah, US Oil Sands has been monitored and opposed by grassroots environmental groups such as Western Resource Advocates, Riverkeepers, Rising Tide, Utah Tarsands Resistance and Before It Starts. Western Resource Advocates led a 2011 appeal to the Utah government’s Oil, Gas and Mining Division against the oil company’s bitumen licence on the basis the lease violates the U.S. Clean Water Act and the state had not considered the impact the mining operation would have on groundwater in the area. Water networks in the oil lease are connected to the Colorado River, which provides drinking water to nearly 30 million people. …"
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