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• All change as gas reserves soar

  
  Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority: 145
  With coal being too dirty and wind farms and nuclear power plants arriving late, it seems the world is left with a stark choice: keep on polluting or turn out the lights. Unless, that is, someone comes up with an alternative. Energy executive Rune Bjornson thinks he has the answer.
  2 days ago

• Upper Colorado River, Front Range water resources threatened

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  Some water experts warn the upper Colorado River is an endangered species if current residential growth patterns and water consumption patterns continue along the state’s Front Range, and they’re increasingly concerned proposed energy production on the Western Slope will accelerate its demise. Poudre Canyon ...
  6 days ago

• Shale gas blasts open world energy market

  
  Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority: 145
  The reason is shale gas — a new and abundant source of natural gas, trapped in rock formations. Oil companies have known about it for decades but always dismissed it because it was too expensive and difficult to extract. In the past few years new technologies that pump water underground to fracture the rock and free ...
  1 week ago

• Texas Congressman Funnels Government Money To Oil Interests

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 476
  Congressman Joe Barton managed to create an earmark of a million dollars of government spending to support fossil fuel research and development that aims to convince Americans that the dirtiest, most inefficient sources of fossil fuel energy, such as oil shale, oil sands, coal, and industrial sludges, are somehow ...
  1 week ago

• Oil shale inqiry opens

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 127
  The L.A. Times offers this article .
  2 weeks ago

• Salazar Calling for Investigation into Bush Oil Leases

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 811
  Back in earlier February, in one of his first actions on taking office, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the cancellation of oil and gas leases on more than 100,000 acres of public land in Utah, the first indication that Salazar might pleasantly surprise us. Hes continuing in that vein. Yesterday, he ...
  2 weeks ago

• New rules for oil shale leases on U.S. lands

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
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  3 weeks ago

• Oil shale backers blast Salazar, but Ritter supports lease limitations

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  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 touting their progress at an oil shale confab in Golden. Hosted by the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Water grab for proposed Green River nuclear power plant raises eyebrows

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  Conservation groups and at least one federal agency are raising serious questions about a water grab for a proposed nuclear power plant near Green River, Utah, according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel . The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is already on the record questioning the proposed leasing of up to 24,000 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Interior Dept. to investigate Bush administrations oil shale deals

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 548
  "The Interior Department announced Tuesday it would open an investigation into whether the previous administration set favorable conditions to encourage oil-shale development in the Midwest. The forthcoming review arrives to the satisfaction of local watchdogs and environmental groups, who have long questioned why ...
  3 weeks ago

• US Department of the Interior Offering Second Round of Oil Shale Research and Development Leases; Cuts Potential Commercialization Acreage 87.5%

  
  Green Car Congress — Authority: 582
  The US Department of the Interior (DOI) is offering additional opportunities for energy companies to conduct oil shale research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects on public lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. ( Earlier post .) Energy companies will have 60 days after publication of a Federal ...
  3 weeks ago

• Salazar calls for investigation of Bush oil shale rules

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday called on his department’s inspector general to investigate so-called midnight oil shale leasing regulations issued in the waning days of the Bush administration. Issued as amendments to six existing research and development leases on public lands (five in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nightly Ramble: How About A Burger?

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 140
  Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ’sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble MORE ANITA DUNN :  Victor Davis Hanson, on Saturday : I am not a big fan of saying that officials should resign for stupid remarks. But interim White House communications director Anita ...
  3 weeks ago

• Times follows e-mail trail in 11th-hour oil shale leasing probe of Norton

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  The Los Angeles Times continues to follow the e-mail trail in the 11th-hour Bush administration bid to lock in low royalty rates for highly speculative, as-yet-unproven oil shale production in the Green River Formation of northwest Colorado, eastern Utah and southwest Wyoming. Experts estimate up to one ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bush-era oil-shale decision under review

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  The new Interior Department looks into a move to lock in beneficial royalties and regulations for companies with leases on public lands — denounced by some as a massive giveaway to the oil industry. Reporting from Washington – The Obama Interior Department is reviewing a decision made by the Bush administration in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ritter talks up clean energy at peak-oil confab, takes heat from shale lovers

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  Even as Gov. Bill Ritter was touting Colorado’s “New Energy Economy” at the 5th annual Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas-USA conference in Denver Tuesday evening, he was being blasted from the right for his gas-guzzling aeronautical habits and failure to promote the state’s oil shale ...
  4 weeks ago

• Oil shale extraction hits Europe

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 143
  I’ve blogged about oil shale extraction in the US and how it can be something of game-changer in the petroleum world. The technology is going globa l and could very possibly cause a serious, and welcome, shakeup in the international geopolitics surrounding the oil and gas industry. From the second link: ...
  4 weeks ago

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