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Companies report progress in oil shale trials

Source: Seattle Times
Colorado : CO : USA | about 1 month ago  
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Efforts to mine oil from rock are ongoing in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, speakers at a symposium said Tuesday, the same day Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in Salt Lake City that he would cut the size of new oil shale leases. Representatives from at least three of the four companies with...
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