Just noting that the Alberta Oil Sands are in an unpopulated, undeveloped area. Extracting the oil means moving huge amounts of tar sands to the refineries ie. open-pit mining.
They sometimes say the Great Wall of China is the only structure you can see from space. Wrong, you can't see the Great Wall but you can see the biggest open pit mine in the Alberta Oil Sands.
Eventually the mines will be reclaimed but the total area that will eventually be open-pit mined covers thousands of square miles.
Don't know if the folks in Utah would tolerate this.
I wouldn't tolerate it if it touches national park land. I'd sooner have an energy plan that relies on Shrillary's flatulance.