Tar sands mining spreading to the USA

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Why is it that every week there are more bad news coming in these days I really feel depressed. Here is the next one - tar sand mining is spreading to the US:

Debate stirred over 1st major US tar sands mine - Yahoo! News

Beneath the lush, green hills of eastern Utah's Uinta Basin, where elk, bear and bison outnumber people, the soil is saturated with a sticky tar that may soon provide a new domestic source of petroleum for the United States.
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Alberta-based Earth Energy Resources Inc. aims to start with a roughly 62-acre mine here to produce bitumen, a tar-like form of petroleum, from oil-soaked sands.
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The company has over 7,800 acres of Utah state land under lease, with plans to acquire more, and estimates its current holdings contain more than 250 million barrels of recoverable oil.

And of course Colorado and Utah already have faced so much destruction and there is still (even though the advocatism has declined after Fukushima) some debate on Uranium mining there: Japan nuclear disaster sending tremors through Colorado uranium mining industry | The Colorado Independent