Tag Archives: Activism

Rep. Chris Stewart Skates Out Backdoor After Claiming He Had the “Courage” to Meet With Environmental Groups

(EnviroNews Utah) – In this episode of community activism wherein a multitude of Utah’s top environmental groups had coalesced around a town-hall featuring freshman Republican Congressman Chris Stewart, just about everything you can imagine went down. Following a warmup rally where the groups were protesting Stewart’s controversial subpoenaing…

And You Thought Canada Had Tar Sands? — UT/CO Have 25X More And They’re Ripping into It

(EnviroNews Utah) – EDITOR’S NOTE: When originally released, this documentary filmed was titled, “Families Camp Out in Protest to Save the Tavaputs Plateau from America’s First Approved Commercial Tar Sands Mine.” The transcript reads as follows: Tar sands, oil sands, asphalt, and bituminous sands. These names all represent…

Climate Hero Tim DeChristopher Free From Prison at Last

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) – The day has finally arrived, and climate hero Tim DeChristopher, a.k.a. “Bidder 70” is free of the Federal prison system, well minus three years of crummy and cumbersome probation. In this segment, we recap what was truly one of the most inspiring, yet…

Protests Against America’s First Approved Tar Sands Operation Rage in Utah at Chevron Refinery

(EnviroNews Utah) – On March 23rd, protestors of the now approved tar sands project in PR Springs, Utah delivered a row of small coffins to the Chevron Refinery in Salt Lake City, in response to the refineries recent expansion plans that would enable them to accommodate future tar…

Will Munger of Canyon Country Rising Tide Regarding Utah Tar Sands: “We’re not going to let them shove that down our throat without a fight!”

(EnviroNews Utah) — North Salt Lake —

Raphael Cordray of Utah Tar Sands Resistance Discusses the Potential Dangers of Uranium That Will Come With Refining “Dirty” Utah Tar Sands Oil

(EnviroNews Utah) — North Salt Lake —

Tesoro Refinery Workers Walk the Picket Line Facing a Lockout

(EnviroNews Utah) — North Salt Lake City — In this documentary, plant workers from the Tesoro oil refinery in Salt Lake City, including its local president, protest Tesoro’s corporate executives as they walk the picket line threatening a lockout. Emerson Urry reporting.

Bob Brister of the Utah Environmental Congress Rips Tesoro and Speaks Regarding Workers Rights and the Environment at the Tesoro Workers Protest

(EnviroNews Utah) – It wasn’t only disgruntled refinery workers that came out to protest at the Tesoro workers rally, but concerned citizens as well. Bob Brister, who is the Membership Coordinator at the Utah Environmental Congress stood on the corner right along side refinery employees wielding a sign…

Alexa Wagner, a High School Sophmore, Explains the Dangers of Teaching Abstinence Without Teaching Contraception in Utah Sex Ed Classes

(EnviroNews Utah) – Furious with the plethora of controversial bills that passed in this year’s session in the Utah State Legislature, a crowd of angered protestors from all walks of life assembled on Capitol Hill at the Rally to Restore Sanity to Government. Much of this session’s legislation…

Matt Pacenza of Heal Utah Exposes the Herbert Administration’s Compliance with the ‘Ridiculous’ Green River Reactor Plan That Would Give Utah Its First Nuclear Reactors

(EnviroNews Utah) – At the Rally to Restore Sanity to Government held at the Utah State Capitol, Matt Pacenza, Policy Director at HEAL Utah spoke loudly to expose corruption in Utah politics. The crowd was often heated as he delivered an expose’ of lies and deciet surrounding ultra…