Vol. 12, No. 9 Week of March 04, 2007
A decision by Royal Dutch Shell on whether to begin commercial oil shale development won’t happen by the end of this decade as planned because the permit process has taken longer than expected.
Jill Davis, spokeswoman for an experimental project in western Colorado, said they’ll decide shortly after 2010 whether to proceed.
“We just need a little more time to get our test projects going on the federal leases,” she said. “Those leases took a little more time than we thought.”