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Then slipped himself upon the shale And plunged into...
...endless switchback between the vote-rich "front range" and the lightly populated western slope The party is over, the day of having it all is gone," he told Coloradans, pledging to conserve the state's energy resources and work against any damaging exploitation of Colorado's oil shale "We lave an energy-rich state, and yet we have this fantastic scenic treasure with resources of air, beauty and water that we have damaged already. We are entering a period of history when conspicuous consumption and waste just must end." Dominick's campaign was hampered by his arthritic...
Achieving even that degree of self-sufficiency will be staggeringly expensive. Participants in the New York conference estimated that a full-scale effort to spur development of alternate sources of energy, such as nuclear power and oil from shale, and reduce energy demand could cost an astounding $500 billion to $1 trillion over the next ten years. The money would be spent on federal outlays for research and development, subsidies to energy producers and the building of storage tanks to stockpile oil and natural gas. But the dangers of not proceeding are also high. Though U.S. energy supplies and demand...
...whole Rocky Mountain region. In Montana, a $700 million electric generating complex is being built to convert local coal into power for the Pacific Northwest. In Colorado, a consortium of twelve companies is experimenting with ways to tap the oil and gas held in the state's vast shale deposits. In Utah, the leasing of shale lands has pumped $120 million into the state's coffers. But it is in Wyoming, where the antelope still play beside highways, that the changes are most noticeable...
Good News. Social problems are the most intense in Rock Springs, a huge trove of coal, oil, shale, potash, sand, gravel, clay and cement rock. Since 1971, about 5,000 workers have moved in to build the giant Jim Bridger Power Plant- and work in a newly discovered oilfield. Another wave of outsiders, lured by the expansion of trona mines, a source of widely used sodium compounds, and the reopening of old coal mines, is expected to increase the town's 26,000 population...