Letter: Tar sands, oil shale

I would like to comment on the anonymous contribution to your paper last week extolling the virtues of unconventional energy resources such as tar sands and oil shale. That opinion included extended quotation from testimony by Anton Dammer before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The opinion neglected to identify Mr. Dammer as an independent energy consultant recently retired from Red Leaf Resources, Inc., an oil shale company in Utah. Neither the opinion nor…