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Recommended Readings

We would like to acknowledge the valuable work on oil shale done by others and invite you to read more about the subject after you have finished our report. On both counts, the list of recommended readings below offer a good place to start. (For a more detailed listing of sources we consulted during this project, please see the Endnotes.)

• US Bureau of Land Management, Oil Shale and Tar Sands Programmatic EIS Information Center (includes links to the final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement).
• James T. Bartis, Rom LaTourrette, Lloyd Dixon, et al., for RAND Corp., Oil Shale Development in the United States: Prospects and Policy Issues (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2005).
• Paul L. Russell, History of Western Oil Shale (East Brunswick, NJ: The Center for Professional Advancement, 1980).
• Andrew Gulliford, Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale (Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press, 2003).
• Lawrence J. MacDonnell, David Ableson, for Western Resource Advocates, Water On the Rocks: Oil Shale Water Rights in Colorado (Boulder, CO: Western Resource Advocates, 2009).
• BBC Research & Consulting, for Associated Governments of Northwest Colorado, Northwest Colorado Socioeconomic Analysis and Forecasts (Rifle, CO: Associated Governments of Northwest Colorado, 2008)
• Strategic Unconventional Fuels Task Force, Development of America's Strategic Unconventional Fuels (Washington, DC: US Department of Energy, 2007).
• Harry R. Johnson, Peter M. Crawford, James W. Bunger, for the US Department of Energy Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves, Strategic Significance of America's Oil Shale Reserve vol. I and II (Washington, DC: US Department of Energy, 2004).
• Anthony Andrews, for the Congressional Research Service, Oil Shale: History, Incentives, and Policy, (Washington DC: Congressional Research Service, 2006).
• Patricia Nelson Limerick, Claudia Puska, et al, What Every Westerner Should Know About Energy (Boulder, CO: Center of the American West, 2002).