Utah firm plans oil-shale operations this summer
A Utah company plans to begin commercial-scale production of oil shale this summer in the Uintah Basin on state lands. Red Leaf Resources Inc. plans to dig up shale, place it into a…
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COMMENTS
Commenting is not available in this channel entry.TO ‘drop the heater down’ into oil shale deposits in CO requires the ground be defoliated and bladed flat, so it is unclear how that could be done ‘without disturbing the surface’ as the reporter indicates. Stripping vegetation and blading an area is the very definition of ‘disturbing the surface.’