Abstract
Ongoing efforts to commercialize the oil shale resource face numerous environmental challenges due to the potential impacts of oil shale development on air, land, water and wildlife resources. Although many of these resource management challenges cannot be meaningfully addressed until proven oil shale technologies emerge, certain of these anticipated conflicts would benefit from attention and investigation by oil shale developers and policymakers in advance of detailed commercial oil shale leasing and development plans. This chapter discusses three such resource management challenges: the impacts of oil shale development on wildlife, aquatic and plant resources; issues associated with the development of oil shale and other co-located minerals; and water availability for oil shale development.
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