Salazar calls for probe of Bush oil-shale changes

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called Tuesday for an investigation into last-minute changes made by the administration of President George Bush to favor oil companies in oil-shale leasing.

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US Interior secretary scraps oil-shale leasing

In a second reversal of the Bush administration, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday he is scrapping leases for oil-shale development on federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

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Conservation groups threaten suit over oil shale

Environmental groups are threatening to sue the federal government to block plans for commercial oil shale development on nearly 2 million acres of public land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

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'Rules of the road' set for oil shale drilling

The Bush administration gave energy companies steep discounts in the royalties they will be required to pay as it established the groundwork Monday for commercial oil shale development on federal land.

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Interior proposes lower royalties on oil shale

The Bush administration on Tuesday proposed charging energy companies wanting to squeeze oil out of vast shale deposits in the West lower royalties than they pay for drilling on other federal lands, including offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

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PBS to air Burns' national parks series next year

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' new series celebrating America's national parks and detailing their history will air in fall 2009, PBS said Saturday.

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In preparation for future oil shale mining projects near the Rocky Mountains, six oil companies have gained rights to billions of gallons of water in the American West, potentially jeopardizing water supplies throughout the region, according to a new report by Western Resource Ad …

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U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he's scrapping leases on federal land for oil-shale development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

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The Denver Post took note of leading state Democrats' objections to the Bush Administration's royalty rates for oil shale development in the state.

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By AL GOREPublished: November 9, 2008The inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he — and we — must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civil …

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By CARL HULSE WASHINGTON — For decades, opposition to new offshore oil drilling has been a core principle of Congressional Democrats, ranking in the party pantheon somewhere just below protecting Social Security and increasing the minimum wage.

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Mccain vs Obama - Kneejerk vs Thoughtful: Energy Policy

The two presidential rivals have clear differences on energy policy. McCain favors a gas tax "holiday" for the summer driving season and wants to expand offshore drilling. Obama opposes both and instead advocates longer term assistance to develop alternative energy sources.

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Tired of paying $4.00+ per gallon of gas? Then write you congress people and tell them to quit blocking production of American sources of oil. It really is that simple. And you guys want the dems to win this year?

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There's more to come after British Columbia's blockbuster petroleum land sale last week, says an official in the province's Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources. And analysts believe the play is most likely being driven by energy giant EnCana Corp.

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Global Resource Corporation , announced the results from tests proving that the Company's energy conversion process can produce oil and vast amounts of combustible gas from recycled plastics.

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From the article: The front-runner energy company in the effort to unlock oil shale in northwest Colorado has slowed down its research by withdrawing an application for a state mining permit.

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Tapping the West's vast oil shale, tar sand and coal resources would set the country back in its efforts to reduce the pollution that contributes to global warming, three conservation groups argue in a new report.

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How large is this resource? In the Piceance Basin, an area of 1,100 square miles, the oil shale is over 1 million barrels per acre, or roughly 750 billion barrels of recoverable oil. If you extend outward to Wyoming and to Utah, it is 1.3 trillion.

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The turning point may be coming just as Shell Exploration & Production Co. perfects a way to bake shale oil right from the ground. It's an alternative to mining and bringing rock to the surface for cooking in a "retort" or furnace.

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The high cost of crude oil has many people looking for new sources of energy -- and taking a second look at some old ideas. Oil shale is an idea that was tested a generation ago, then abandoned when the price of crude oil plunged.

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Raytheon Company—a $22-billion company better known for its defense and government electronics, aerospace, information technology, and technical services capabilities—and its partner, CF Technologies, have developed a technology that may result in the more efficient extractio …

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Oil industry executives have launched an especially vigorous public-relations campaign trying to polish up the image of an industry that Sen.

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When you are piecing events together trying to make sense out of them, did you ever get the feeling that there's a piece missing--a piece with which, if you had it, you could make sense of the whole?

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This technology, if true, should completely remove US reliance on imported oil and resolve many environmental issues pertaining to oil extraction, given huge US shale oil deposits.

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The headline-grabber up north was that Royal Dutch had paid $465 million Canadian (about $400 million U.S.) for leases on 10 parcels of land in an area known as the Grosmont formation.

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