Socioeconomic Profiles
Use EPS-HDT to compare your region to the rest of the country. Includes socioeconomic data pulled from several sources.
This report summarizes recent research and policy documents, and provides a brief overview of the current state of oil shale development in the U.S. West.
While a handful of companies reported being active in the field-testing of new technologies in 2009, only one company had announced plans to upscale to a prototype (semi-works scale) facility.
For those wishing to dig deeper into the current politics and economics of oil shale, Headwaters Economics recommends the following sources.