Direct Action Protest Temporarily Shuts Down Utah Tar Sands Project

onJun 28, 2014 @ 11:35 PDT

An environmental group called Women of Action Against Violent Extraction (WAAVE) shut down U.S. Oil Sands’ mining operation in Utah temporarily on June 16, citing tension around whether the project’s permits are legal.

The women swarmed a bulldozer on the site and asked the operator to stop working. A two and a half minute YouTube video posted June 19 by PeacefulUprising.org shows the bulldozer operator asking them to talk to his supervisor.

The protest was at the U.S. Oil Sands project at PR Spring on the Tavaputs Plateau in eastern Utah, about 50 miles west of Grand Junction, Colorado. The project is the first tar sands mine in the U.S.

Three protest groups, Peaceful Uprising, U.S Tar Sands Resistance and Canyon Country Rising Tide, have set up a permanent protest vigil at the site and are encouraging such direct action protests of the project.

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Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War

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onApr 30, 2026 @ 05:45 PDT

Industry giants have been accused of ‘enriching shareholders’ while ‘farmers and consumers pay the price’.

uk/Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests

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onApr 30, 2026 @ 01:27 PDT

Nigel Farage’s anti-climate party has received two thirds of its income from oil investors.

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ByTJ Jordan

onApr 29, 2026 @ 23:05 PDT

You might not have heard of them, but a new analysis shows these ad execs have overseen $1.5 billion worth of fossil fuel ads in the U.S. since the Paris Agreement.