CB Tract

Occidental Petroleum's Cathedral Buffs Oil Shale Project in Rio Blanco County Colorado - Better known as the CB Tract. OK, well, what's left of it at this point. I took this picture in January 2000. The main tower was 315 feet tall, and beneath if was a shaft 30' in diameter that went straight down 2600 feet. From off of this main shaft, there were many horizontal tunnels. I was told by several people that when the funding for this thing was cancelled, they got everyone out, and flipped the switches to the dewatering pumps, leaving behind all kinds of equipement deep inside the Earth. When I passed through the area in December 2005, the towers were gone...