More than 800,000 acres of federal public lands in the Colorado River Basin have been allocated by the Bureau of Land Management as available for oil shale and tar sands leasing. View the map ›
The Grand Canyon Trust and Deseret Power signed a settlement agreement over a sizable water right (15 cubic-feet per second, or 3.5 billion gallons per year). Deseret Power acquired the water right from Enefit American Oil Co., an Estonian state-owned oil shale company aiming to build a massive oil shale mining and processing facility in northern […]