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Vol. 17, No. 47 Week of November 18, 2012
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


US limits Rockies oil-shale development

Obama administration scales back to a third of area proposed by George W. Bush administration; wilderness-quality lands off table

Paul Foy

Associated Press

The U.S. Department of the Interior scaled back a Bush administration plan Nov. 9 to lease Western range lands for development of oil shale and tar sands, the unconventional sources of oil found in pockets of the Rocky Mountains. Federal officials said they were set to authorize 1,250 square miles....


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