Blm Issues New Rules For Oil Shale Development: Last Minute Bush Administration Environmental Trashing?

Though Congress let the offshore drilling and oil shale development ban lapse back in the end of September, few expected that new rules to develop US oil shale would be proposed before the end of the year. Well, the Bureau of Land Management apparently couldn’t wait.

In a move which the BLM says “could result in the addition [to US supplies] of up to 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from lands in the Western United States” and which will “increase and diversify America’s energy supply”, new rules for Oil Shale management were released yesterday .

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