Tag: Oil Shale
Salazar Brothers Team Up to Find Balance in Energy Development
Western Colorado has seen the extractive industry come and go, so U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., and his brother, U.S. Congressman John Salazar, D-Manassas,...
Environmental Groups on Oil Shale Study: Read and React
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was mandated by Congress to write a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) that would study the environmental, social...
BLM Plans for Oil Shale Mining
The Bureau of Land Management is setting aside public land for the commercial development of oil shale, although a commercially viable process to extract...
Updated: Oil Shale Slowdown Showdown
BLM's fast track on oil shale was derailed, but Roan Plateau development delay was dumped
Democratic Congressman Mark Udall's Amendment 2 to the Interior Department...
Colorado Reviving the Sagebrush Rebellion?
The "Sagebrush Rebellion" that championed state rights against the federal government was a Republican conservative faction back in the 1970's and again in the...
Ritter Taking BLM to Task
Governor Bill Ritter is using both barrels of his pen responding to the Bureau of Land Management's Roan Plateau drilling plan and its oil...
BLM’s Oil Shale SEIS on Fast Forward
Local northwest Colorado town and county officials and the governor's office were "sworn to secrecy." The federal government report was still in its draft...
BLM Mainlining Oil Shale Development
No oil company has yet invented a commercially viable way to extract oil from oil shale. Not ExxonMobil, not Shell Frontier, not Chevron USA....
Western Colorado: Another “National Sacrifice Zone?”
How many of us are guilty of "talking" about issues, but we never get around to "acting" on our concerns? Joe Brown and Peter...
Oil Shale/Oil and Gas Update
Colorado Confidential takes a look at oil and gas drilling hearings and legislation and the 25th anniversary of "Black Sunday," the day Exxon pulled...