Say goodbye to the Green River Plateau

[Levin]

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1...8,00.html?pg=1

I used to go deer hunting to the Book and Roan Cliffs near Green River, Utah. It's a remarkably beautiful place. It's also full of oil shale/tar sands, as is the Uinta Basin.

It will soon look like this:


http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-con...pit_mining.jpg

And the BLM wants to reduce the royalties the american people would be paid by the oil companies. And yet we can't extend the tax credits for the solar power industry. It makes me sick.

Perhaps this more than any other reason will drive me to Obama. The Republicans are on the losing side of history with its policies toward the environment. I hope the party shrivels and dies because of it.

[YOhio]

I am excited for the positive impact this will have for the Eastern Utah economy. Though I am concerned about a repeat of early-80's Grand Junction.

[landpoke]

Originally Posted by Levin

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1...8,00.html?pg=1

I used to go deer hunting to the Book and Roan Cliffs near Green River, Utah. It's a remarkably beautiful place. It's also full of oil shale/tar sands, as is the Uinta Basin.

It will soon look like this:


http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-con...pit_mining.jpg

And the BLM wants to reduce the royalties the american people would be paid by the oil companies. And yet we can't extend the tax credits for the solar power industry. It makes me sick.

Perhaps this more than any other reason will drive me to Obama. The Republicans are on the losing side of history with its policies toward the environment. I hope the party shrivels and dies because of it.

Typical left wing hysteria. In situ is the phrase that pays with oil shale. You will not see open pit mining for any number of reasons, but most of all because it's not economic.

By the way, have you ever been to a reclaimed open pit mine? You'd never even know it had been there. The range is actually better than it was before.