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| Salazar: oil shale development on the table |
| 2009-02-27 |
| Posted by:BrerRabbit |
| #3 Secretary Salsa is the front man for the vironuts. Does he talk to the Eneregy Department? Probably not, unless they are already on the same windpower page. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2009-02-27 12:22 |
| #2 Its amazing how dumb these politicians really are. In December Colorado brought in rules which extended the period for permitting drilling to 65 days. In any other state, the permit period is about 7 days. The regulations that were brought in and the considerations which were bought into the process included one provision, for instance, which required companies extracting natural gas from certain coal seams to treat their water pits so as not to attract mosquitoes that could transmit West Nile virus to pregnant sage grouse. I kid you not. The I-70 corridor economy down to Grand Junction is going to be gutted economically. It happened in the 80's and now its deja vu all over again. |
| Posted by: Omoter Speaking for Boskone7794 2009-02-27 12:11 |
| #1 And yet just 3 days later: Institute for Energy Research (IER) president Thomas J. Pyle issued the following statement today after the Interior Department announced its plans to withdraw from consideration acreage in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming where research and development of a small portion of our nation’s homegrown oil shale reserves had previously been scheduled to take place: “Earlier this week, Secretary Salazar suggested America’s massive and homegrown reserves of oil shale held ‘great potential.’ Unfortunately, the Interior Department’s decision today may help ensure that potential never becomes reality – in the process, locking-away an American energy resource larger than the total reserves of the entire Middle East. “At a time of great economic uncertainty, with millions of Americans out of work and state budgets stretched beyond their breaking point, responsible development of America’s abundant shale resources could be a way out of our current condition, and a way back to a better one. The Interior Department’s announcement today effectively forecloses that opportunity.” |
| Posted by: ed 2009-02-27 06:46 |