BLM Oil Shale

From: KREX

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – The Checks and Balances Project, a Colorado watchdog group, is accusing Club 20, in partnership with Environmentally Conscious Consumers for Oil Shale, otherwise known as ECCOS, of purposefully misrepresenting stakeholder comments when they claimed a majority of those polled are in favor of more land use for oil shale development.

The Denver-based organization reviewed the stakeholder comments and say that based on their interpretation, 51 percent of those polled are in opposition to using more land for oil shale, while 37 percent are for it.

From:  Fox Business

By Elizabeth MacDonald

The U.S. oil and natural-gas rush will add 1.7 million jobs this year at wages on average of about $35 an hour, “dramatically higher” than the average $23 an hour for other jobs in the economy, says consultant IHS in a new report.

IHS also forecasts the number of U.S. jobs in this booming industry will swell to 2.5 million by 2015, and to nearly 3.5 million jobs in 2035, noting this will be “high-quality and high-paying” work paying more than manufacturing jobs.

Editor’s Note: This is an example the environmental NGO’s misidentifying the issue with Oil Shale Development in the United States.  The CRE recently released a white paper outlining the issues concerning oil shale development.  The paper found:

“Unfortunately, the Coalition is unable to support this proposition [oil shale’s adverse impact on water availability] with any data.  While it is important to be cautious about water resource availability and its competing uses, the
Environmental NGO Coalition’s assertion also contradicts the data incorporated into the PEIS by BLM. Both the 2008 PEIS and 2012 draft PEIS conclude that there will be a water surplus of 340,348 (ac-ft/yr) in 2000 and 268,425 (ac-ft/yr) in 2030 in Colorado.”