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Examines the 100-year history of oil shale development, and chronicles the social, environmental, and financial havoc created by the industry's cycles of boom and bust.

Table of Contents
Introduction; Exploration and Settlement in the Valley of the Colorado; Outsiders, Insiders and Ties That bind: The First Oil Shale Book and its Aftermath; Shale Shock; Exxon and the Big Boom; From Boom to Bust: The Tiger Empties the Tank; The White Paper, Black Sunday and Corporate Responsibility in the West; Index.

Boomtown Blues

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      Publisher: University Press of Colorado
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/4/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780870817205, 978-0870817205
      ISBN10: 0870817205

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines the 100-year history of oil shale development, and chronicles the social, environmental, and financial havoc created by the industry's cycles of boom and bust.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; Exploration and Settlement in the Valley of the Colorado; Outsiders, Insiders and Ties That bind: The First Oil Shale Book and its Aftermath; Shale Shock; Exxon and the Big Boom; From Boom to Bust: The Tiger Empties the Tank; The White Paper, Black Sunday and Corporate Responsibility in the West; Index.

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