Laura Carlson speaks with Fort Lewis College history professor and author Andrew Gulliford about his book, Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, which focuses on the oil shale bust and what has changed since Exxon abandoned a $5 billion oil shale project on the Western Slope in 1982.
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