Oil companies like Shell and Chevron are buying up water rights on the Western Slope of Colorado to prepare for a coming oil shale boom.Joe Hanel's reported on the story for the Durango Herald and he talks to Dan Meyers.

Oil companies like Shell and Chevron are buying up water rights on the Western Slope of Colorado to prepare for a coming oil shale boom.Joe Hanel's reported on the story for the Durango Herald and he talks to Dan Meyers.
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