Oil shale comment period extended
Posted by egable on March 21st, 2008 filed in Energy developmentA day after the public comment deadline for the Bureau of Land Management’s plan for oil shale and tar sand development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, the federal agency announced it has extended the deadline for 30 days. File it under “too little, too late.”
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 am
Plan to be agressive and go forward!!! There are methods that are known that take the Oil out of the Shale and Sands and replacing the product minus the Oil back into the the Earth. We need not have the extreemist on either side dictating the out come. Most of the Land in these areas are away from most civilization. There is probably a reason why there is Oil in the Sands and the Shale. Lets work on taking advantage of those blessings.
March 24th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Just look at the environmental disaster that tar sands development has become in Alberta and you’ll realize that we cannot simply extract the resource and put everything back as it was. People are drinking contaminated water, breathing polluted air, eating toxic fish, and one the largest carbon processing boreal forests in the northern hemisphere is being destroyed. All of this because we can’t figure out how to satisfy our glutonous energy needs without using nonrenewable resouces. The soliution is not “be aggressive and go forward” with the same old nonanswer that has caused geopolitical chaos, war after war, and environmental destruction. The answer has to be “do something different.” Oil shale development remains unproven. More importantly, though, it simply perpetuates a problem that we need to solve sooner rather than later. At this point, the unknowns and the known negatives outweigh the positives associated with development of oil shale in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah.