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This 1.6 million acres mentioned is over oil shale deposits, not shale oil deposits and there is a big difference. Shale oil like in the Bakken formation under Montana and North Dakota has liquid oil in the shale, and is freed by fracking. This oil shale under Colorado does not have any liquid oil, rather, the oil in the oil shale can only be freed by cooking the oil shale that is deep underground and there is currently no demonstrated process for doing that. The Interior Department has reserved the best deposits for exploration companies but will not free up more until they have demonstrated a viable process for freeing the oil from the oil shale.