June 28, 2007--Enviros blast oil shale (Cortez Journal)
Environmentalists say mining oil out of shale could require nearly three times the electricity used by the entire state of Colorado in 2005 and consume as much water each year as two cities the size of Denver. An oil shale boom could strain area water supplies and increase air pollution if more coal-fired power plants are built to power the mining of oil locked in rock in western Colorado, southwest Wyoming and eastern Utah.
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