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File Number
8059
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Section D General Studies-State Water Plan
State
CO
Date
10/11/1972
Author
Steve Wynkoop
Title
Environmental Considerations-The Denver Post-Oil Shale Report Gets Mixed Reactions
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<br />-THE DENVER <br /> <br />JBLlC HEARING <br /> <br />Oil Shale Rerport Gets Mix.~d R, <br /> <br /> <br />B~' STEVE WY:-':Koor oil firms with holdings on a <br />Denn.r Po~t Staff Writl'r propoSf'd Western Colorado leas~ <br />three-volume fcOeral study tract in the Picean('t' Creek <br />Iii shale developmt'n! envi- Basin charged that ()il shaie' <br />nental impact was both development is leading to <br />led and praised by more confrontation o\'er undergruund! <br />~o person9 Tuesday al a nuclear stimulation of natural' <br />ver public hearing. gas, <br />ltural gas interests, envl- :\OT ("O:\"\'I:\"("[D <br />1entalists and even repre- Another oil industry spokes- <br />~lives of firms most inter- man, Paul M. Dougan, secretary <br />:I in oil shale devel()pment of Equity Oil Co.. Salt Lake. <br />'(j in picking apart portions City, said his firm's $2.8 million <br />ISO-page study. research program Into oil shale <br />aise for the envln.nmental failed to cc.nvince il that oil <br />lct statement for six pro- shale development is ec<lnomi- <br />tI prototype oil shale leases cally feasible, <br />Colorado, Wyoming and Equity Oil Co. also has inter~ <br />was perfunctory and ests in underground nuclear gaS <br />l. stimulation in the Piceance <br />Ire than 2flO pl'rson!l atlend- Creek Basin area, where the In <br />be daylOrlg hearing at the t('rior Departmt'nt proposes 10 <br />'eT Federal Center. Th(' In- lease two Colorado oil shale: <br />r Department hopes 10' tracts, '! <br />1 leasing shortly after the Dougan said the em'irOrl- <br />of the year. m l' n t a I impact statement <br />e oil shale company em- c!O('sn't arll'quately address the: <br />l romplainoo privately that al\('rnative of private OU shale <br />nterior Department is gOing development. That criticism <br />I\'e to do a better job of in- was frequently made by envi~ <br />iog industry of true envi- t(ll'lmental spokesmen. too. <br />lental impacts and costs to "No less than 13 major oil <br />I them, if tbe leasing pro- companil's hold private land <br />1 is to succri'd. capable of supporting either 011' <br />vironmenLaI leaders from shale mining (or) retorting <br />~ierra Club, the Colorado operations or in situ tun- <br />Span' Council (eOSCl, derground) operati()ns, and the <br />National Wildlife Federa- barrier to development of this <br />the Audubon Society, land Is not lack of access to <br />~nt groups and others cri- mor<> government land, but the <br />d the Interior twpart-Ifailure of Ihcse companies 10 <br />'s e~aluation of impacts on develop" 10 dale technoh>~" <br />all', water, man .amllWhich Will ;lllow the economic <br />.fe. rpco\'ery of the oil shall <br />o lkm"er natural ~ilS and I reMluree," Dougan said. <br /> <br />~> <br />. <br />\ .J <br />.. <br />
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