Posts Under ‘oil shale’ Category

The Big Shale Play

March 1, 2010 by Keith Kloor | Filed in oil shale, peak oil, southwest | No comments

It’s out there, lurking. Here’s something warm and fuzzy for Westerners to wake up to this morning: Now before I get into the piece that follows I should explain that I don’t hold any particular animus towards the states of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming or Idaho, and so when I start talking about disposing of nuclear…Continue Reading…

Shale Bait

February 28, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in oil shale | No comments

This is both clever and astute: Oil shale is kind of like online journalism, there’s such potential there, but from the looks of it, we may never figure out how to make a profitable industry of it. From there, Terray Sylvester of High Country News does a nice job deciphering the contradictory signals sent by…Continue Reading…