Company Agrees to Delay Development Of Utah Commercial-Scale Oil Shale Project

摘要

Denver-A Sandy, Utah, company has agreed to delay development of the only commercial oil shale project in the United States after concerns were raised by environmentalists about the impact the project could have on water quality, an attorney told BNA June 29. Red Leaf Resources Inc. came to an agreement with Living Rivers and the Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining to postpone indefinitely its plans to extract kerogen from shale rock, Rob Dubuc, staff attorney for Western Resource Advocates in Salt Lake City, which represented Living Rivers in the administrative case, told BNA.