Yes and yea. Knowing that mining the shale, even though that would be more economic, will never fly thanks to the enviro wackos who live in beautiful San Francisco and have never set foot in the desolate deserts of Utah and elsewhere, they have come up with a different technique.
That technique would leave no footprint after the oil is extracted, but that makes no difference to the envirowackos, because the environment has nothing to do with it. It's just an excuse that gullible people buy.
The Republicans may be the Stupid Party, but the Democrats are the Useful Idiot Party.
Oil shale production is better than Canadian tar sand oil simply because we're not paying Canada for it.
Some people simply refuse to understand. Not can't. Refuse.
That’s reality. We could do great things. We could have done great things.