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Last Rush for the Wild West: Tar Sands Mining in Utah
Documentary on controversial Utah strip mining coming to Moscow
Inland 360.com - February 16th, 2015 by Jennifer K Bauer
Eco-News Report
KHSU Radio - January 8th, 2015 with host Jennifer Kalt of Humboldt Baykeeper
Interview with Pete Nichols, National Director of Waterkeeper Alliance and Jennifer Ekstrom, Director of film Last Rush for the Wild West
LISTEN BY CLICKING HERE
Interview with Pete Nichols, National Director of Waterkeeper Alliance and Jennifer Ekstrom, Director of film Last Rush for the Wild West
LISTEN BY CLICKING HERE
Coastal Currents
KHUM Radio - January 8th, 2015 with host Mike Dronkers
Interview with Last Rush for the Wild West's director Jennifer Ekstrom and Jennifer Savage, Coastal Programs Director for Northcoast Environmental Center LISTEN BY CLICKING HERE
Interview with Last Rush for the Wild West's director Jennifer Ekstrom and Jennifer Savage, Coastal Programs Director for Northcoast Environmental Center LISTEN BY CLICKING HERE
10 Best Eco-Docs of 2014
EcoWatch - December 29th, 2014 by Stefanie Spear
This year brought many inspiring and educational environmental documentaries to theatres and film festivals worldwide. From the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, DC to Mountainfilm in Telluride, filmmakers were working hard to bring light to the most pervasive environmental issues impacting human health and the environment.
Check out my list of the top 10 best eco-docs of 2014:
http://ecowatch.com/2014/12/29/environmental-documentaries-2014/
This year brought many inspiring and educational environmental documentaries to theatres and film festivals worldwide. From the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, DC to Mountainfilm in Telluride, filmmakers were working hard to bring light to the most pervasive environmental issues impacting human health and the environment.
Check out my list of the top 10 best eco-docs of 2014:
http://ecowatch.com/2014/12/29/environmental-documentaries-2014/
Documentary Exposes Fossil Fuel Industries Assault on the Wild West
EcoWatch - Sept 4, 2014
A new documentary, Last Rush for the Wild West: Tar Sands, Oil Shale and the American Frontier, by filmmaker Jennifer Ekstrom, talks about another piece of the American landscape under assault from the fossil fuel industry: the strip mining of more than a million acres of tar sands and oil shale in eastern Utah. It addresses the wilderness landscapes that would be destroyed, increased pollution it would bring to already heavily polluted Salt Lake City and threat to the Colorado River watershed, which provides drinking water to 36 million people.
The state of Utah has already approved the project despite a lack of studies about the potential impact on the water supply, and there has already been strong backlash.
“I made this film because of the magnitude of destruction on the horizon in America if strip mining for tar sands and oil shale is allowed to gain momentum,” said Eckstrom, who has a long record of environmental activism. “The massive strip mines that have already been approved by the State of Utah, under the public’s radar, are unprecedented and out of step with the needs of humanity on many levels. Too often we realize the foolishness of our decisions after the fact. We now have a rare opportunity to stop this really bad project before it begins.”
Last Rush for the Wild West will debut in the heart of the impacted area, screening at the Moab International Film Festival in Utah on Sept. 19.
According to the film’s Facebook page, “The recreation mecca of Moab, Utah is a front-line community positioned directly downstream from proposed tar sands and oil shale strip mines. Moab residents would be among the first in the Colorado River watershed to be impacted by pollution inevitably created by this type of mining practice.”
http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/04/utah-tar-sands-oil-shale/
A new documentary, Last Rush for the Wild West: Tar Sands, Oil Shale and the American Frontier, by filmmaker Jennifer Ekstrom, talks about another piece of the American landscape under assault from the fossil fuel industry: the strip mining of more than a million acres of tar sands and oil shale in eastern Utah. It addresses the wilderness landscapes that would be destroyed, increased pollution it would bring to already heavily polluted Salt Lake City and threat to the Colorado River watershed, which provides drinking water to 36 million people.
The state of Utah has already approved the project despite a lack of studies about the potential impact on the water supply, and there has already been strong backlash.
“I made this film because of the magnitude of destruction on the horizon in America if strip mining for tar sands and oil shale is allowed to gain momentum,” said Eckstrom, who has a long record of environmental activism. “The massive strip mines that have already been approved by the State of Utah, under the public’s radar, are unprecedented and out of step with the needs of humanity on many levels. Too often we realize the foolishness of our decisions after the fact. We now have a rare opportunity to stop this really bad project before it begins.”
Last Rush for the Wild West will debut in the heart of the impacted area, screening at the Moab International Film Festival in Utah on Sept. 19.
According to the film’s Facebook page, “The recreation mecca of Moab, Utah is a front-line community positioned directly downstream from proposed tar sands and oil shale strip mines. Moab residents would be among the first in the Colorado River watershed to be impacted by pollution inevitably created by this type of mining practice.”
http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/04/utah-tar-sands-oil-shale/
EPA Engages about first tar sands mine in the u.s.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now showing an interest in the United States first commercial tar sands strip mine. EPA oversight is critical since this precedent setting strip mine was approved by the State of Utah without a single environmental review or accountability measure.
U.S. Oil Sands had sidestepped previous oversight by the EPA and the environmental reviews it would require by proposing the initial operations on Utah State Lands only.
But it turns out that part of the proposed tar sands strip mines are on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the EPA has jurisdiction to oversee the activities. The corporation had tried to sidestep this federal regulation in favor of much more lenient (or non-existent) rules in the State of Utah. The are now challenging the EPA's jurisdiction.
EPA letter to US Oil Sands
U.S. Oil Sands had sidestepped previous oversight by the EPA and the environmental reviews it would require by proposing the initial operations on Utah State Lands only.
But it turns out that part of the proposed tar sands strip mines are on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the EPA has jurisdiction to oversee the activities. The corporation had tried to sidestep this federal regulation in favor of much more lenient (or non-existent) rules in the State of Utah. The are now challenging the EPA's jurisdiction.
EPA letter to US Oil Sands
21 protesters arrested at Utah tar sands mine
July 22nd, 2014 - KSL.com reports
VERNAL — Twenty-one people from 10 states were arrested Monday during a protest that "became physical" at a controversial tar sands mine in northeastern Utah, according to the Uintah County Sheriff's Office....
Complete KSL.com Article
VERNAL — Twenty-one people from 10 states were arrested Monday during a protest that "became physical" at a controversial tar sands mine in northeastern Utah, according to the Uintah County Sheriff's Office....
Complete KSL.com Article
