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Known for ‘Saving White Rocks Canyon’ From Tar Sands Mining, Lewis Cooper Gives Encouraging Advice to Tavaputs Oil Sands Activists

Known for ‘Saving White Rocks Canyon’ From Tar Sands Mining, Lewis Cooper Gives Encouraging Advice to Tavaputs Oil Sands Activists

(EnviroNews California) – White Rocks, Utah – After a 105 hour work week, and a whirlwind, 5 day, start-to-finish documentary production on America’s first approved commercial tar sands mine in Utah’s pristine Tavaputs Plateau, EnviroNews USA Editor-in-Chief Emerson Urry raced across the massive Uintah Basin oil turf in…

The Power of Divestment – How This Man Stopped a Tar Sands Strip Mine in Glorious White Rocks Canyon

The Power of Divestment – How This Man Stopped a Tar Sands Strip Mine in Glorious White Rocks Canyon

(EnviroNews Utah) – Roosevelt — di·vest [dih-vest, dahy-] – to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title This is the story of Lewis Cooper, an ex-Pennzoil Capital Relations Manager who also happens to be one of only five neighbors that live up glorious White Rocks Canyon,…

And You Thought Canada Had Tar Sands? — UT/CO Have 25X More And They’re Ripping into It

And You Thought Canada Had Tar Sands? — UT/CO Have 25X More And They’re Ripping into It

(EnviroNews Utah) – EDITOR’S NOTE: When originally released, this documentary filmed was titled, “Families Camp Out in Protest to Save the Tavaputs Plateau from America’s First Approved Commercial Tar Sands Mine.” The transcript reads as follows: Tar sands, oil sands, asphalt, and bituminous sands. These names all represent…