LANDER -- The Rocky Mountain West has up to 1 trillion barrels of oil bound in 1,000-foot-thick oil shale formations in northwestern Colorado, southwestern Wyoming and eastern Utah.
Don't expect much development of this resource any time soon in the Cowboy State.
"The quality of the oil shale deposits in Wyoming just isn't as good as those in Colorado," said Cindy Wertz, spokeswoman for the Wyoming office of the Bureau of Land Management.
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