BY JUDY FAHYS
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is taking comments through Tuesday on what could be the nation’s first shale oil mine.
Enefit American Oil wants to tap into oil shale deposits along the Colorado border that are massive, over a billion barrels. The company is planning to mine and process oil on private land southeast of Vernal, but it needs a right-of-way to run power, water and fuel lines over federal land.
Roughly half of the nation's shale-oil reserves are located in Utah...