Oil shale development in northwestern Colorado: water and related land impacts. Water resources management workshop
The aim of this report is to provide information that will be useful when considering water and related land aspects of oil shale development. The effort was designed to update and integrate information on water needs, availability, and quality as well as on closely related land use activities, specifically within the oil shale area of Colorado. Extensive use was made of information that had become available since the release of the final environmental statement on oil shale leasing program. Note is made of the fact that since the compilation and writing of this report that Colony Development Operation in October 1974 indefinitely suspended their planned construction of a 50,000 barrel a day shale oil plant due to economic uncertainties, increased estimates for plant cost, and lack of a national energy policy. For similar reasons on December 19, 1975, after defeat of a Congressional bill that would have provided $6 billion in subsidies for synfuel plants, Atlantic Richfield Co. and TOSCO pulled out of the consortium leasing Colorado tract C-b. Again, production costs and international prices have reached levels that make oil shale production uneconomic in the world market. However, an upward shift in world oil prices or enactment of government synfuel subsidies might accelerate oil shale development and make the information contained in this report in high demand by decision makers.
- OSTI ID:
- 6053532
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: IES Report 48
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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