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 the plug on oil shale development in the Rifle...
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An Oil Shale Bust Survivor’s Story
“It’s been 25 years and we’re still here….” Only a couple of dozen people still living in Rifle can make the claim they survived “Black Sunday,” the day Exxon pulled out of the oil shale business on...
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Ghosts of ‘Black Sunday’ hover over BLM’s cautious oil shale move
Wednesday’s move by the Bureau of Land Management to proceed with more oil shale leases for Exxon Mobil and two other companies conjured up memories for some of the “Black Sunday” bust of May 2, 1982,...
View ArticleGAO calls for study on water requirements tied to oil shale development
A new Government Accountability Office report (pdf) issued this week concludes that a lot more study of water resources needs to be conducted before there’s a full-blown resurgence of the Colorado’s...
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Lamborn oil shale bill seen by Boehner as possible transportation funding fix
Republican Doug Lamborn’s bill to speed up oil shale production in western Colorado has been packaged with House Speaker John Boehner’s American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (HR 7) as a means of...
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Scaled-back BLM oil shale plan reportedly backed by GarCo commissioners
The Garfield County commissioners reportedly back a scaled-back federal plan for oil shale development in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, as long as it leaves as much acreage as possible open for exploring...
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Chevron giving up oil shale research in western Colorado to pursue other...
Chevron is giving up its experimental oil shale lease in western Colorado. The company is one of only three that holds a federal lease to research oil shale energy development on the Western Slope, but...
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‘Black Sunday’ lessons from 30 years ago coloring Colorado oil shale debate...
Thirty years ago, Herb Bacon was working in the old U.S. Bank of Grand Junction when a man operating Exxon’s local oil shale project walked into the lobby with his usual pep in his step. “He stopped in...
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