Petroteq Energy receives a stop work order again!

Petroteq Energy receives a stop work order again!

Petroteq Energy has been running an illegal operation over at TMM Asphalt Ridge Mine near the green river south of Vernal. Formerly known as MCW this project has received several stop orders and citations from state agencies and inspectors. 

Petroteq receives stop work order again

Petroteq is a scam

Inspection report May 2020: “Conclusions and Recommendations: Operation has been ordered to vacate by the property owner. The lease is no longer valid. The operator has been cited for improper storage of deleterious materials and unpaid permit fees under MN-2020-60-01. The abatement requires immediately retaining a licensed disposal contractor to inventory and dispose of all petroleum and hazardous materials.”

Inspection report May 14, 2021: “Valkor and Greenfield established a joint venture back in March 2020. Plant construction was completed in December. The operator ran out of ore to process and set up an agreement with Tar Sands Holdings II to purchase more ore to bring to the property. Valkor asked the property owner for an extension to the terms of the lease allowing for an extension to produce more oil by end of year. According to the operator it is too expensive and currently not economical to mine the ore from the pit. The plan is to test the plant and once it is determined to be operational then mined material from the pit will be used. There are no immediate plans to the mine the pit material. The oil sand from the off-site source was estimated to be approximately 500 tons. Operator has identified a buyer for the sand material. The company planned to conduct further exploration to evaluate the resource which was scheduled to resume in June.”

from DNR inspection report

Petroteq receives stop work order again.

Processing material from a mine not on site requires a different permit. Petroteq does not have a permit to do what they describe here to April Abate, the inspector. Who makes a stop work order:

Cessation order May 14, 2021: “Facility is processing material from an off-site source and staging waste products from off-site sources not in accordance with the most recently approved Notice of Intent dated October 27, 2017. “

Meanwhile Greenfield is formed from TOMCO (out of London) investors who already got ripped off on the Red Leaf project on Seep Ridge Road, and Valkor. Greenfield is duping folks into buying shares in this charade of a mine and processing facility. 

May 25 Findings of fact order resulting from stop work conference 

On May 21, 2021 a stop work conference was held at the request of Greenfield energy and Petroteq was ordered to comply or cease by July 1 2021.

Red Leaf begins reclamation on failed oil shale project in Uintah County. 

Red Leaf begins reclamation on failed oil shale project in Uintah County. 

Red Leaf to begin reclamation

UTSR protest at Red Leaf in 2014

Red Leaf Resources Oil shale mine and processing facility has finally begun remediation at the Oil Shale mine Southwest #1 Utah Permit Number: M0470103.

This 274 acre site was never operational. Here is the most recent Mining progress report Jan 22, 2021

“Ore Disposition: No ore was mined, stockpiled, processed, heaped, etc. in 2020. The last mining activities occurred in 2015. Inert, non-processed ore, and overburden stockpiles are present and maintained in stable conditions at multiple locations across the LMO site.”

Laura Nelson who worked for former governor’s Herbert and Huntsman was at one time a VP at Red Leaf resources (2007-2012). Laura Nelson also known as the “Carbon Queen” was head of the governors office of Energy Development until January 2020. As CEO of Red Leaf she helped Red Leaf to persuade the legislature to pay for “the road to nowhere” or Seep Ridge Road in Uintah County. 

Laura Nielsen's road to nowhere.

UTSR bike ride on Seep Ridge road, “The road to nowhere” built for Red Leaf and US Oil sands.

Seep Ridge road runs past the Red Leaf Resources mine site and ends at the failed PR Springs tar sands mine site on the county line to Grand county. Currently the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition (SCIC) is attempting to extend this road into Grand County. Grand County and others have been fighting this road that only serves oil and gas for decades!   

Reclamation Plan to begin spring 2021. You can still invest in Redleaf.

 

zombie mine plan rises at PR Springs

2020 Resources changes name and owners to revive scam operation at PR Springs.

Like a zombie that comes back from the grave, the Tar Sands scam is too lucrative to die. 2020 Resources formerly known as US Oil Sands, has recently changed its contact address and agent info to David Sealock. David Sealock resigned as the CEO of Petroteq on March 31, 2020.As the CEO of Petroteq, Mr. Sealock was able to rip off shareholders and local businesses in Uintah county. Successfully milking the Petroteq tar sands scam project before moving on to buy 2020 Resources. 2020 Resources LLC, A division of Sky Quarry Inc. 136 East South Temple, Suite 1400 PMB 589. Salt Lake City www.skyquarry.com has filed a notice of intention to revise large mining operations at PR Springs Utah. Permit file M0470090. 

From the permit file Utah mine inspector April Abate writes:

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 11:38 AM: “Jamie, We will still need to have the layout the solvent extraction process details in your new mine plan. This will undoubtedly affect the type of equipment and machinery you will be using at the facility. This will likely change at least some of the equipment currently at the facility that is listed in the bond cost spreadsheets. Once we receive your significant revision to the mine plan, we have 30 days to review it and make comments. Typically we will have comments that require you to respond to so that will be another few weeks for your company to review and submit the responses. Once/if we issue a tentative approval decision, we ask for the new reclamation bond then it will go to a 30-day public comment period. This project has been fiercely contested in the past, so I would expect that you would receive opposition comments to reactivate the operation. If the opposing parties ask for an informal hearing then it could take even longer. Based on my past experience with this operation, your schedule of mid-summer 2021 is probably not very realistic given the time it will take to revise the permit and the potential for opposition given this mine’s history. I just need to be honest with you about this. You should also check in with the Utah Division of Environmental Quality – Groundwater Protection Division to see if they are going to require a groundwater discharge permit for your operation. They may have their own requirements depending upon how you will engineer your solvent extraction system.”      

idle mine owned by 2020 resources

View of mine processing are from Seep Ridge Road

Sky Quarry bought a bankrupt project that has NEVER produced oil commercially. However these people involved seem to have no intention of actually producing a viable product. This mine at PR Springs is an important piece of the charade that is tar sands in Utah. What is being extracted from PR Springs and the other tar sands projects in Utah is investors money.

The companies that run these rip off mines are also damaging the environment. They are polluting waters and leaving a mess on the land. Local businesses in Uintah county have given credit and services to these “Foreign Limited Liability companies” who can bankrupt and default on debts over and over. Meanwhile paying their directors large salaries from investors’ monies.

Sky Quarry makes fantastic claims of clean and green projects to lure investors.

From Sky Quarrys web page: “Sky Quarry is a true green R3 (recycle, reuse, reduce) clean technology company – developing the science, engineering the technology, which will bring in a new era of sustainable recycle and reuse of asphalt shingle waste material and environmentally clean oil (ECO) production.”

Sky Quarry is now describing strip mining as REMEDIATION. A new trend in the tar sands scam circuit. 

From Linkedin: ” Environmentally clean, yet collaborative, Sky Quarry’s process removes asphalt bitumen from the asphalt shingle waste, contaminated soil remediation or oil saturated sands, without the use of valuable water resources and limiting the greenhouse gas exposure to our environment.”

Zombie mine plan should die

Sunset in PR Springs Canyon