In Colorado's Parachute Canyon not far from Grand Junction, the seed of an oil revolution was planted. Union Oil Co. of California last week fired up a $7,000,000 prototype retort to produce oil from shale rock, the biggest such attempt by private enterprise. As 400 top oilmen and Government officials gathered for the dedication, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols put their dream into words: "All around us is one of the greatest potential sources of energy materials ever to be found on this earth."
In Colorado's Piceance Creek Basin alone, geologists estimate there is an oil shale reserve of a trillion...
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