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...million cu. ft. of gas per day. Geologist Richard Powers estimates that as much as 15.5 billion bbl. of oil and 62.5 trillion cu. ft. of gas lie beneath Wyoming, Idaho and northeastern Utah-a resource larger than the proven reserves on Alaska's North Slope. By 1982 Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America will have finished an oil pipeline from Wyoming to Nebraska. Says one of Amoco's production chiefs, James Vanderbeek: "So far, we've only scratched the surface...
...Vernal, Utah. Exxon is the most enthusiastic: last May the oil giant paid Atlantic Richfield $400 million for its share in the Colony oil-shale project in Colorado, and now plans to spend $500 billion over the next 30 years to build 150 installations on Colorado's Western Slope. Estimated output by 2010: 8 million...
...most threatened area in the Mountain West may be Colorado's gorgeous and still half-empty Western Slope. It is estimated that if Exxon does build 150 oil-shale plants there, the population in Rio Blanco and Garfield counties could shoot from 75,000 to 1.5 million. Colorado Senator Gary Hart has figured that the Exxon project alone would require enough new schools, hospitals and roads each year to accommodate a city the size of Grand Junction (pop. 54,000), now the largest city in western Colorado. Water would have to be imported from...
When we arrive at White Sand Bay, we are overwhelmed by the beauty of the place. Rice paddies and farm land extend to within a few hundred yards of the shore; from there, rolling hills slope gently down to the beach. We are disappointed that we cannot take pictures--the presence of pillboxes and military installations along the shore prevents it. Originally built by the Japanese during, the occupation period, such installations are common along the whole shore of Taiwan. Many have been abandoned but none destroyed; once in a while an enterprising farmer will use one to house...
Democrats in office will conform increasingly to the new orthodoxy, and change will roll back, a Sisyphean boulder down the slope of the latter curve. And even if the pause lasts only a decade, it will be too long. The great experiment of the last century, conducted primarily in the United States, has been to see if we could keep the wave from crashing, somehow moderate its peak or build up its base so that it never hits shore. Americans, in 1980, have given up on that experiment, which demands quick analysis and dramatic, constant change, with hardly a look...