“1.8 TRILLION barrels of oil”
At current consumption rates, that’s about 250 years’ worth of supply for the United States. Give or take a decade or so.
Yeah, but you can’t drink oil.
Water rights are the true gold, not the oil shale.
As long as our energy resources are controlled by a foreign company, it should be environmentally sound.
The RATS will never let them get it. They want us all sitting in the dark and freezing in our homes.
Try saying that 5 times fast!
We had some ethanol developers look elsewhere to build their plants once it was found out that the copious amounts of water needed to brew the stuff would rapidly deplete the local water table. We're all on well water here. Not a good idea to have something like that down the road. But-that being said, I really think oil shale should be developed. But, I wanted us to drill in ANWR 20 years ago, too. We have a lot of catching up to do.
Farmers growing low-value crops such as alfalfa use 80 percent of Colorado’s water. They pay laughably low rates for it. It will not be easy to change this, as water law in the West is as hidebound as the House of Lords, and markedly favors claims of prior use. They will probably have to be paid big bucks to quit farming and move to Florida, but it must be done.
Yea, I recall reading somewhere that crude would have to be 60 - 70 brl for it to be feasable to produce from the shale. About the same for the tar sand in Canada as well.
Soooo... It looks like water is gonna be the excuse now.
This may be an ignorant question but here goes.
Why do they need fresh water?
If you drill deep enough, there is brackish water under most of the US. Not good for drinking but could be good enough for industrial use.
It should be good for steam cracking, cooling ect. It may require more expensive materials to resist corrosion but are there any experts here that can answer the question?
The Democrats (and Sen. McCain) have blocked drilling in ANWR and offshore, right? How long before they bar ANY drilling in Colorado, the Dakotas, or any other part of the U.S.?