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Closed rebellion-Counties hide oil shale meeting

If various officials in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming don’t like the Obama administration’s decision to slow the rush toward potentially disastrous attempts to turn rocks and sand into fuel — and many of them don’t — they have as much right as anyone else to just say so.

It must have been a lot more fun, though, for commissioners from Uintah, Carbon and Duchesne counties to organize a clandestine gathering for themselves, some counterparts from Colorado and Wyoming, a couple of state officials and lobbyists from a so-far imaginary industry that claims to know how to turn the region’s oil shale into gasoline at a competitive price. All the better to style themselves as the oppressed as they hammered out their resolutions of objection.

Closed rebellion