Utah Agency Approves Oil-Sands Project

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Mon Sep-13-10 07:40 PM
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Utah Agency Approves Oil-Sands Project

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A top Utah regulator approved plans Monday for the first commercial U.S. oil sands project.

John Baza, director of Utah's Division of Oil, Gas & Mining, upheld an earlier decision by his staff to give Earth Energy Resources Inc. a permit to mine a 62-acre pit in eastern Utah.

Environmental activists had objected to the project and demanded a hearing held by Baza in July.

Baza concluded Monday that his staff followed all of the legal requirement in giving its approval for the tar sands project a year ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/09/13/business/AP-UT-Oil-Sands.html?scp=1&sq=oil%20sands%20utah&st=cse

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