Colorado Republicans Push for Oil Shale Development. AP, May 4, 2008. "Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard has joined other Republican members of Congress [to push] for more domestic energy production by removing barriers to oil shale leasing in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. A bill introduced Thursday by [Republican] Sen. Pete Domenici, N.M., would repeal a one-year moratorium on approval of final regulations for commercial oil shale leases on federal land. It would also allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Colorado's other senator, Democrat Ken Salazar, pushed the one-year ban that prevents the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from using federal funds to draft final regulations for commercial leases. [Republican] Allard voted... against the $555 billion spending bill that included the ban last year... Salazar is among the Colorado officials who've urged the federal government to move cautiously on oil shale because of the potential impacts. Water providers along Colorado's Front Range have warned that commercial-scale development could drain up to 15% of western Colorado's water supply."
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