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<br />magcr of the Colony plant PCOlog.v professor and 'i\l/sS"Kay eoiiins, president of using water in oil shale deveF
<br />11<I,",,1 ent Operation, which spokesman for the group. the Denver Audubon Society, npment on salinity. competing
<br />:; S JfI oil shale research ;\lyron Corrin, a CSU almo- questioned in a prepared state- agricultural water uses and the
<br />-1eratmg on Parachute spheric science professor, said ment, "Why not let the oil com- effects of associated domestic
<br />ClSlt1r,t of RIfle. Colo. sug- treatment of air pollution prob. panics mine lhtoir o....-n land ~es of water as cities in the oU
<br />Coune separate areas of lems "is cursory and made- ralher than the public land?" shale areas grow in size.
<br />r deaes in the environ- quate. '. "If the oil companies mined Some persons said they felt
<br />ieorgmpact statemenf be He said even basic data upon on theIr own land, the 50,000 oil shale development shouldn't
<br />'ragu. which air pollution effects could (public) acres needed for min- be allowed to proceed.
<br />tom~as which were insuf. be measured Isn't included in iog on the six tracts would be Among those was Ed\\oin Mer-
<br />, salr inaccurately treated the environmental statement. spared destruction," she said. rick, southwestern regional ex-
<br />Interior Department Dr. Eugene R. Weiner. repre- SO QUESTIOS ecutive of the National Wildlife
<br />Tue;aid Jotm Hutchins, senhng Colorado Citizens for Edward Connors, chairman of Federation. .~.
<br />I issr manager, included Clean Air, said the environ. the cose Water Workshop, said "This infant fuel-Frankel'C~
<br />e and salinity, mine mental statement makes no at- there isn't any question that the stein--beating on the laboratof1:.
<br />ationir . quality. alternat~ve tempt to address the siting or prototype leases could be sup- door to be rele~ cannot ye~
<br />:itlng and reclamation effects (If 100 megawatt pewer plIed With water. be freed to sterilize the land, 10
<br />-;00 .shale. plants it says will be built in However, he said, the (>!lvi- pollute the air, to embalm ~
<br />s said i!. more detailed association with each oil shale ronmenlal impilct st<ltement wilderness, to suck the ri\'eu
<br />would be submitted plant. fails to fully treat the p(fects of ,dry," he said. ..
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<br />'nt Istatement said. howev- A leading proponent of retort- ding for lhe best of the six oil Lekas has been a leading pro-
<br />I as he governor hasn't any ing oil shale underground, using shale tracts up for lease in Col. panent of the Project Bronco
<br />mfel ~lte\'e 011 ~hale de~- n u c I ear explosh'cs. charged orado, Wyoming and Utah. c~cept of using nuclear explo-
<br />agrCl ",ill be camed out m . BO~\~"L"S RIDDISG Sl\'es to retort shale in the
<br />:f theonmentally unaccepta- Tuesday the Interior Department. . . ""ound
<br />. .. "1 The bonus bidding system'" '
<br />Btest~r. . IS squ~ezmg Independent o~ places too great an emphasis on He says he believes the COR-
<br />~lorado. State Vnwer- companies out of. a proposed olllJarge cash outlays, Lekas said. cepl is viable. but he is lookin~
<br />ing {.ssors "ho. have bee~ shale lands leasmg program. "Variou... major oil ('Ompanies also at underground retorting
<br />revegetatIon of 011 -. ... 1 .
<br />ems 0'1.1 .r 'z.ed th :\like Lekas, Concord, Cali!.. ('(lntrol pract\l:ally all of the [usmg comentvnal exp OSIVes.
<br />, '~nt~11 eSi~~~~~1 slate: !;aid. the lease progr~m. as es-, Mngov('~m('nt oil shale land in L('ka~ said the battle for the
<br />~"", <realment of re\lcgeta- tabhsh~ b~' the Intenor Depart-I'the area, he saId. Ilcases IS gomg t.o focus.oo two
<br />I COUll ment, IS contrary to the goals "They have enormous Unan- Colorado leases In the Piceance
<br />n th';halC' swells in size as of oil shale development. eial resources and could offer CrCt'k Basin.
<br />. 'ssed, and spoil piles Lekas, president of Ge<lklne-Ica.sh bonus bids that no in- As many as 20 oil companle!
<br />:nUnlt~anyons near oil shale lies, Inc., said the program ob-idependent or sroup of indcpcn- ma)' compete for the bids, he
<br />I.X rto\'- according fa the en- jecti\'e of the protot)'pe oil; dent oil companies could hope said. Fewer, he predicted, will
<br />-LI statement. shale leasinlt program is tO,IO match," Lekas said. be interested in Utah leases.
<br />~ intended that the spur development of techno- _ _ and Ih..rc IS almost no interest.
<br />ne statement , . . logy. in Wyoming leases offered.
<br />guideline for the re- However, he said, the bonus I Lekas was in Denver TuesdaY.~
<br />rnt of wgetation in bidding system 10 be used by . to attend environmental impact
<br />Ie 8r.ea.. one can. only the Interior Dt'partment as- .1 statrment public hearings on
<br />that It IS totally mad- sures that the largest oU rom-.the proposed prototype oil shale
<br />aid Richard T. Ward, panies will dominate the bid- Ileasing program.
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