Tag Archives: Tavaputs Plateau

After Elders, Activists Camp 5 Yrs. in Wilderness at Experimental Utah Tar Sands Mine, Company Buckles, Files Bankruptcy

(EnviroNews Utah) — Vernal, Utah — The following video report emanates from a demonstration at the PR Springs tar sands test site on the Tavaputs Plateau in late September of 2017. The transcript reads as follows: Emerson Urry (Narrating): In a remarkable turn of events in late September,…

25 Sentenced After Protesting America’s First Commercial Tar Sands Strip Mine

(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — 25 activists from the group Utah Tar Sands Resistance (UTSR) were finally sentenced today in a Vernal courtroom in Uintah County, Utah. Most of the individuals sentenced were arrested on July 23, 2014 after chaining themselves to mining equipment inside…

Utah Tar Sands Protestors Burn Money at Red Leaf Resources’ Shareholder Meeting

(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — This was the scene in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah on November 12, 2014 as protestors from the group Utah Tar Sands Resistance (UTSR) assembled in front of the Alta Club building to voice their opposition to the Delaware-based, French-backed…

21 Arrested as Police and Protestors Clash at First U.S. Tar Sands Mine

(EnviroNews Utah) — PR Springs, Utah — On Monday, July 23, 2014, a confrontation between police and environmental activists protesting tar sands development at PR Springs in Utah resulted in two people being injured and 21 people arrested. Between 70 and 80 protesters gathered at the sight of…

Tom Weis of Climate Crisis Solutions Calls for Mass Protesting and Mobilization of People in Utah over US Tar Sands

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Washington D.C. — Even before Tom Weis made his call for people to show up at the site of U.S. Oil Sands tar sands development, Utah’s own Utah Tar Sands Resistance (UTSR) has been holding campouts at PR Springs to bring attention to…

Tom Weis of Climate Crisis Solutions Reflects on Historic Cowboy and Indian Alliance Protest in DC

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Washington D.C. — Tom Weis, President of Climate Crisis Solutions was interviewed on EnviroNews DC by Rob Brune. Weis has a strong background in conservation, wind and renewable energy, as well as political organizing. The transcript is as follows: Rob Brune: Okay, I’m…

Daryl Hannah and Winona LaDuke on Tar Sands, Keystone XL and Fukushima at the Cowboy and Indian Alliance

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — In this interview, famed celebrity actress and activist Daryl Hannah was interviewed alongside renowned Native American activist, former Green Party vice presidential candidate and economist Winona LaDuke by EnviroNews USA Editor-in-Chief Emerson Urry. The dynamic duo attended the Cowboy and Indian Alliance “Reject…

Neil Young on Climate Change, Keystone XL and Tar Sands at the Cowboy and Indian Alliance in DC

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — This interview with legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Neil Young was taped live on April, 26 2014 at the Cowboy and Indian Alliance in Washington, D.C. The event was aimed at pressuring President Barack Obama to reject the construction of…

Largest Air Pollution Rally in U.S. History Goes down on Utah’s Capitol Hill

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau via EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – People are dropping over dead in the streets along the Wasatch Front from Utah’s absolutely debilitating and deadly air-pollution crisis. If that sounds a little harsh, it isn’t, and as a matter of fact, it is…

Peaceful Uprising Demands Immediate DAQ Ban On Tar Sands Refining in Utah

(EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – Peaceful Uprising has demanded that the Department of Air Quality (DAQ) ban all tar sands refining in the state of Utah, and has called upon them to reject any further permit requests for tar sands refining or development in the future….