The oil shale industry created a boom in western Garfield County in the late 1970s and early 1980s, until 1982, when falling oil prices prompted Exxon to close its facility on May 2, 1982, "Black ...

Energy giant ExxonMobil has again retreated from the oil-shale business, this time far more quietly than its exit in 1982. The company in November notified the Bureau of Land Management that it was ...

Conservation groups today issued a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for approving rights-of-way for pipelines and powerlines that pave the way for the nation's first commercial oil ...

The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

GREEN RIVER - At present, there is no commercial production of oil shale being undertaken in the United States. That may be about to change, however. The Bureau of Land Management recently finalized a ...

DENVER – Federal land managers have proposed allocating nearly 2 million acres of public land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for potential commercial oil shale development.The Bureau of Land Management ...

Puckett Land Co.’s 23,893 acre-foot proposal dates to 1966, part of “integrated system” involving lands in Garfield and Rio Blanco counties This story is provided by Aspen Journalism, an independent, ...

The US Bureau of Land Management published final regulations on Nov. 17 to establish a commercial oil shale development program on public lands in three western states. Lease sales probably will not ...

Among the many legacies of Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who is being remembered around the world in the days after his death, is one particularly local one. While president, Carter helped ...

A company with an interest in oil shale development in western Colorado is seeking to maintain its water rights associated with a proposed reservoir on Thompson Creek that would be located within an ...