The Bureau of Land Management has finalized new regulations governing oil shale development on public lands in the West. According to the BLM: “Commercial development of oil shale will not begin until it is technologically viable, which is not expected for several years. The regulations will provide a basis for decisions, as ‘rules of the road’ for the large investment that will be necessary for industry to develop technologies to extract the resource in an environmentally sound manner.” A copy of the rules can be found here.
