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GAO calls for study on water requirements tied to oil shale development

By | 12.02.10 | 1:45 pm

A new Government Accountability Office report (pdf) issued this week concludes that a lot more study of water resources needs to be conducted before there’s a full-blown resurgence of the Colorado’s Western Slope oil shale industry.

Actually, resurgence isn’t…

Sentinel series dubs Energy Alley along I-70 western Colorado’s ‘Road to riches’

By | 12.28.09 | 9:15 am

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on Sunday did a good job of painting the big picture in terms of the massive scale of energy resources under the arid ground of western Colorado and eastern Utah in an area dubbed “Energy…

Estonian energy firm wants to site windmills atop oil-shale ash fields

By | 12.16.09 | 9:00 am

Estonia, a nation ravaged by unchecked oil shale production and its environmental consequences, according to international studies, has finally hit on a greener use for fields of oil shale ash.

According to the Baltic Course, described as an “International…

Farmers say thanks to Salazar for pumping the brakes on oil shale leasing

By | 11.30.09 | 10:08 am

Farmers in the Rocky Mountain states of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico unveiled an interesting ad buy over the weekend, praising Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for his more measured approach to oil shale research and production than the previous administration.…

Oil shale backers blast Salazar, but Ritter supports lease limitations

By | 10.21.09 | 12:55 pm

Even as Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was announcing new environmental reforms for the next round of oil shale research and development leases on public lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming on Tuesday, proponents of the unproven fuel source were…