Of the many issues facing Utahns, and of the many controversies percolating regarding the apparent conflict between the development of "nontraditional energy resources" and even the most basic attention to environmental quality, perhaps no recent development is more disturbing than the plan to open portions of Utah's wilderness to tar sand extraction. To their credit, the Salt Lake Tribune has provided some decent coverage of the ongoing public hearings on this subject. Also, local environmental daredevils Peaceful Uprising* are on this issue with a vengeance (hellraiser extraordinaire Ashley Anderson, who has written about this issue, is a guy worth following on Twitter - if you're into that kind of thing, follow him for some quality tweets - as a matter of fact, go ahead and follow Peaceful Uprising while you're at it). From PeaceUp's website : The UK’s Guardian called tar sands mining in Alberta, Canada the most destructive project on Earth. The United ...