The Center for Biological Diversity lays it on thick

BLM Moves Ahead With Efforts to Squeeze Oil From Rock

"Even if the oil companies could squeeze oil from a stone, it wouldn't do anything to address our nation's energy and climate crisis," said Amy Atwood of the Center for Biological Diversity. "Oil shale development of any sort is dirtier than the dirtiest coal and fundamentally incompatible with reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide pollutant levels to below 350 parts per million (ppm). Oil shale is also an inappropriate use of our public lands, which must serve as refugia for species struggling to survive in the face of global warming."
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The Center for Biological Diversity is dedicated to ensuring that atmospheric carbon dioxide pollutant levels are reduced to below 350 ppm, which leading climate scientists warn is necessary to prevent devastating climate change. Further development of greenhouse-intensive energy sources, including oil shale, tar sands, and coal-fired power plants, is fundamentally incompatible with achieving this goal. If greenhouse emissions are not immediately reduced, the current atmospheric carbon dioxide level of 385 ppm will rise to approximately 500 ppm by mid-century, triggering mass wildlife extinctions, catastrophic global weather and ecosystem changes, and tragic human suffering.