Tag: Oil Shale
Report: Water and oil shale don’t mix
The Bush administration and the Bureau of Land Management are pushing relentlessly ahead with plans to fast-track Colorado’s long-dormant oil shale industry, but a study released this fall exposes one factor that could put a big damper on the boom: a serious lack of water.
New BLM oil shale regs draw fire from Salazar, environmental groups
As predicted by environmental groups in a Colorado Independent story last month, new federal regulations dictating government royalties for oil shale production on public lands in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah fall far short of fair compensation, numerous critics said Monday.
Salazar brushes off speculation on Obama cabinet post
While Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar's name has generated conjecture as a possible Interior Department secretary in a new Barack Obama administration, the first-term Democrat said Wednesday, "It's highly doubtful that I would serve in the Cabinet." Salazar said he likes his current job in a conference call with reporters.
Polis opponent Starin says climate change not caused by man
Echoing his party’s vice presidential nominee, Republican congressional candidate Scott Starin Wednesday told the Colorado Independent he does not believe global climate change is caused by man.
Starin, a Lafayette aerospace engineer who’s running against Boulder Democrat Jared Polis for the 2nd Congressional District seat being vacated by Mark Udall, sounded a lot like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who said during her recent vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden that she was uncertain of man’s role and that cyclical weather patterns may be responsible.
Udall vows to fight Bush administration fast-tracking of oil-shale leasing
Even as Republican Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman declared his state “open for business” to the oil-shale industry Monday in Golden, Democratic congressman Mark Udall of Colorado vowed to fight the Bush administration’s fast-tracking of commercial leasing in the West.
Wall Street collapse derails GOP’s domestic-drilling campaign strategy
With energy prices plummeting right along with the rest of the stock market the past two weeks, Republicans may have lost one of their best weapons for attacking Democrats in the energy battleground state of Colorado.
Lifting of oil-shale lease ban draws fire from environmental groups
A Bush administration push to fast track oil-shale leasing regulations got a big boost Wednesday when a moratorium on those leases was allowed to expire by Congress despite the lack of technology needed to make large-scale oil production from shale commercially viable.
Americans for American Energy: declaring victory one eco-terrorist at a time
Fresh off declaring a “total win” in the wake of the U.S. House allowing offshore drilling and oil-shale leasing bans to lapse, the conservative pro-domestic-energy group Americans for American Energy wasted no time pouncing on two prominent environmental groups.
Aspen officials blast Hatch for elitist, enviro comments
The Pitkin County (Aspen) commissioners have joined Rep. John Salazar (D-Colo.) in a border war of words with Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah,...
Oil shale as a magic bullet?
Oil shale.
It’s the buzz lately for politicians needing an easy explanation of how the U.S. can use domestic resources to end the country of...