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...Congress approved construction of the Alaska pipeline, virtually exempting it from further court challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act. This move may set a precedent for similar exemptions for other energy projects, including tapping offshore oil reserves and oil-shale deposits...
...embargoes, and watched the subject of energy explode from a neglected issue into a vast and complex national crisis. "The intricacies of the oil business alone are mind-boggling," he points out, "not to mention the nuclear power situation, natural gas questions, coal, strip-mining, offshore drilling and oil-shale controversies and electric power problems...
Even if the embargo is lifted early in 1974, as expected, Arab leaders are not likely to boost production enough to satisfy voracious world demand. Thus, if the U.S. began immediately to expand its inadequate refinery capacity, and develop alternate fuel sources such as coal, shale oil and atomic power, it would still be four or five years before the nation's energy supplies met demand. Much of the impetus for such research and development will have to come from the Nixon Administration...
...used to get copper in Butte, Mont., may also be tested, probably at one of the Colorado tracts. Great earth-moving machines would first peel back the sagebrush and grass over thousands of acres, next remove billions of tons of earth and rock, and finally gouge out the oil-shale beds 100 ft. to 850 ft. below the surface. The other technique, to be tried at the remaining leaseholds, will be to deep-mine with conventional pillar-and-room tunneling, as is done with coal-but on a gargantuan scale. More than 70,000 tons of oil shale might...
Environmentalists are aghast at the project. Their biggest fear concerns waste shale. Almost incredibly, once the oil has been removed, what remains is pulverized rock with at least a 12% greater volume than it had before it was mined. Reason: there are spaces between the rock particles that did not exist when the rock was in the ground. What can be done with this spent shale? Colony Development Operation, a consortium of companies including Atlantic Richfield and Standard Oil of Ohio, has spent $1,000,000 on detailed environmental studies of the problem. Conclusion: the powdered shale can be dumped...