Oil Companies Buy Up Water Rights for Oil Shale Production

· Apr. 5, 2010, 4:00 pm

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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