Will Utah Oil Sands Project and Water, If There is Any, Mix?

A spunky little environmental organization, essentially a one-man show with a small supporting cast, continues to battle a Canadian company's effort to establish the nation's first sizeable tars sands strip mine on an arid plateau in eastern Utah.

The issue, as always, is water. And the oratories, as always, are impassioned.

John Weisheit, the conservation director of Moab, Utah-based Living Rivers, and his allies at Western Resource Advocates, a non-profit environmental law and policy organization with offices in seven states, are still trying to convince state officials that there is water in the Book Cliffs region—and that it should be protected from the planned tar sands mine.

Now they've got a new study that they say further supports their position.

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