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Last week, a mass action to stop tar sands mining in Utah successfully halted construction for one week and counting. But the summer is far from over, and we have lots more […]

Campaign Field School Continues on the Plateau – Come Join Us!

Last week, a mass action to stop tar sands mining in Utah successfully halted construction for one week and counting. But the summer is far from over, and we have lots more […]

Blog

0July 25, 2014
National Environmental Groups Stand With Utah Land Defenders

This week, twenty-one people were arrested while engaging in peaceful civil disobedience in protest of a controversial proposed tar sands mine in northeastern Utah, which would threaten local land and […]
0July 21, 2014
Support Utah Land Defenders!

UPDATE: ALL 21 LAND DEFENDERS HAVE BEEN RELEASED. After a massive direct action protest today at the site of U.S. Oil Sands’ tar sands strip-mining site, a total of 21 […]
1July 21, 2014
PRESS RELEASE: Opponents to enforce shutdown of tar sands mine today

July 21, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Opponents to enforce shutdown of tar sands mine today PR SPRINGS, Utah–About 80 climate justice land defenders right now are using their bodies to […]
0July 18, 2014
Grass Roots On-Site Protests Actually Work! (So Come and Join Us)

by Jill Jones Grass roots on-site protests actually work, according to blogger Jason Koebler in a recent post on MOTHERBOARD. This is good news for Utah Tar Sand Resistance, Peaceful […]
0July 15, 2014
The Violence of Tar Sands Extraction: WAAVE Speaks

By Sassy-Frass On June 16, five women marched onto the site where U.S. Oil Sands, a tar sands mining company, was bulldozing a forested ridgeline into a flat parking lot. […]
0July 11, 2014
Honk if you ❤ Babies! Dirty Energy Kills!

In May, news erupted about a startling number of dying babies in Utah’s Uintah Basin, (what should be Ute territory, actually) where fossil fuel development is the center of the […]

Videos

2July 29, 2014
Violent extraction shut-down all day by peace-seeking blockades

This awesome video shows the tenacity of the Utah land defenders who recently put their bodies on the line to end the violence of tar sands strip mining. Enjoy! Throw […]
0July 7, 2014
Utah Children say, “Oil Shale Puts Our Future on the Line.”

The weekend of June 20th, 2014, an intergenerational gathering brought together children, guardians, teachers and land defenders at PR Springs, site of the nation’s first commercial fuel tar sands strip […]
0July 2, 2014
IT’S ON: Major Tar Sands Construction Underway in Utah

Canadian company U.S Oil Sands has paid their reclamation bond of $2.2 million and has now begun major construction at their second tar sands strip mine in the Book Cliffs […]

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