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Oil shale water-rights battle brewing over Shell’s Yampa River claim

By | 02.11.09 | 12:45 pm

Towns and counties along the Yampa River in rural Northwest Colorado are starting to gird for battle against mighty Shell Oil, which in December filed a claim on the Yampa for enough water to fill a proposed reservoir for future oil shale production.

Members Claim Club 20 Controlled by Oil and Gas

By | 04.17.08 | 4:42 pm

Photobucket Ponytailed, liberal and a member of the Green Party, San Miguel County Commissioner Art Goodtimes served for 10 years on the board of Club 20, a traditionally conservative organization that promotes Western Slope opinions on issues and policy. Goodtimes

Environmental Groups on Oil Shale Study: Read and React

By | 03.06.08 | 8:30 am

PhotobucketThe Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was mandated by Congress to write a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) that would study the environmental, social and economic impacts of an oil shale industry in northwest Colorado. Incidentally, the public, local