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REGIONAL NEWS — Garfield County Supports BLM Plan
on Oil Shale
The revised BLM plan would cut 421 square miles from the proposed 3,125 square miles allocated for possible oil shale development in the three states. The biggest area removed would be the 182-square-mile Adobe Town area in Wyoming.
27Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
School of Mines Hosts Oil Shale Symposium
The dates are October 17-19 and the gathering will review development of oil shale resources worldwide, including research and development, impact analysis, regulatory framework, and project and program status. An optional field trip to the Piceance Basin is also available.
23Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Lively Exchange at BLM Oil Shale Meeting in Rifle
The meeting was part of the agency’s attempt to take a fresh look at an oil shale plan released in the closing days of the Bush Administration. More meetings on the controversial topic are scheduled for Denver today and in Cheyenne Thursday.
4May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
The West’s Boom and Bust Energy Cycles —
How Does Colorado Stack Up?
One key finding: PRICE — not policy — is the primary driver of oil and gas development activity, making it highly volatile. Employment and income from mining, including energy development, in the five-state region follow commodity price trends.
30Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
The Ongoing Oil Shale Saga
Observers of the century-long quest to extract oil from the shale rocks of Colorado’s Western Slope are fond of saying “oil shale is the fuel of the future … and always will be.” Never commercially viable because of the costs and resources needed to heat and extract the kerogen trapped in the rocks, an estimated 2 trillion barrels of shale oil remains locked up – perhaps forever. But why then has Shell spent an estimated $200 million so far on research, development and demonstration (RD&D) at its Mahogany Research Project in western Colorado? And at what point will gas prices rise so high that the cost of producing shale oil suddenly makes sense?
16Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
This Week’s Oil and Gas Developments
BLM to Revisit Oil Shale …
Companies Get Big Fines for Stormwater Runoff…
Elbert County Heats Up With Oil and Gas Fever …
Fracking Chemical Registry Not Enough Say Critics …
Texas Company Told to Cease and Desist in Colorado…
Local Governments Oppose COGCC Board Remake…
Feds to Review Oil Shale Rules Challenged By Environmentalists
Salazar said the review will settles two lawsuits filed by environmental groups over the federal government’s rules for commercial-scale oil shale operations put forth in the last days of the Bush Administration. The rules changed the BLM’s oil-shale plans in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
16Feb2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
GAO Releases Report on Oil Shale - Water Nexus
One of the report’s recommendations includes establishing comprehensive baseline conditions for groundwater and surface water quality, and quantity in the Piceance and Uintah Basins to aid in the future monitoring of impacts from oil shale development in the Green River Formation.
30Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Oil Shale Leases Hinge on Balance for Developers, Wildlife
For Peppler, the new round of R&D leases being offered by Interior, including in Rio Blanco County, are “the right way to go.” But the Western Slope energy organizer for the Colorado Environmental Coalition says, “We want to see results before we lease off more of the Piceance Basin.”
21Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
A Solution to Oil Shale’s Big Negatives?
The Seattle-based private company claims its in-situ technique can produce useable oil from oil shale, without the two downsides associated with the process: huge water requirements and C02 emissions.
4Nov2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
The Risky Race to Exploit Oil Sands
and Shales
With astonishing speed, US oil companies, Canadian pipeline builders, and investors from all over the globe are spending huge sums in an economically promising and ecologically risky race to open the next era of hydrocarbon development. As domestic pools of conventional oil and gas dwindle, companies are increasingly turning to “unconventional” fossil fuel reserves contained in the carbon rich-sands and deep shales of Canada, the Great Plains, and the Rocky Mountain West.
2Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Independent Study: Oil Shale Is a Poor
Energy Source
As the nation looks for new sources of fuel, one option being considered is oil shale. Opponents, however, claim in a new report released Monday that oil shale is no solution at all because it takes nearly as much energy to produce as it yields.
3Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Oil Shale Industry Says “Trust Us” (Once More!)
Once again we are being asked to believe that production of oil shale is a good idea. Industry leaders, such as Shell, Exxon, Red Leaf and the Oil Shale Exploration Company (OSEC), are asserting this time will be different … But a federal taskforce is cautioning “not so fast.”
17May2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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