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Former Meeker attorney and geologist Frank Cooley, accompanied by his daughter, attempted the “impossible” Tuesday night: compressing 63 years of knowledge and experience about oil shale into a 25-minute presentation before Meeker’s board of trustees (left to right) Rodney Gerloff, John Strate and Mayor Mandi Etheridge. (Not pictured: Dan Conrado, Katelin Cook and Andy Thomson.)

MEEKER I “I’ve believed we were going to see the (oil shale) boom next Wednesday for the past 55 years.” After…

One Comment

  1. Beverly R DeVore-Wedding
    August 6, 2011 at 9:50 am

    Having done one master’s degree researching the effects of the left over retort water from oil shale processing, I agree with Mr. Cooley that oil shale is a rich resource with the potential to provide much product IF and this is a big IF an efficient, effective process is ever developed. At this time there isn’t such a method that makes oil shale extraction economical.
    Believing though in the power of research hopefully that day will come but until then . . .conservation is a good way to decrease our use of the other fossil fuels. Conservation does not have to be a “bad” word either; using less cost less! I just hope that out of the present day concerns people will work on the research and development of a variety of energy and building resources that are sustainable as well as economical and profitable, maintaining the quality of our air, water and life.

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