Group items tagged

Gov. Dave Freudenthal urged federal land managers to proceed cautiously in developing rules for oil shale leasing, even though commercial development is likely many years away in Wyoming, if at all. "While oil shale is a technology that may one day be used for large-scale economic production, it is still an unproven and unknown resource and thus caution should be taken in its development," Freudenthal wrote to Bureau of Land Management Director Jim Caswell.