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United States shale gas production is one of the worst ongoing ecological disasters.
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I've got everything fixed now for an attack straightaway. on the Floss Valley to the old coal and shale pits, where there's oil too.
Twenty ton of ore slipping and sliding in that shale on a narrow road. with only a prayer between you and a drop of 5,000 feet?
Not one that'll hold a 20-ton load in that shale with 12 mules.
You mean you come down through all that shale with no brake?
You hit rock and then those layers of shale.
There's enough loose rock and shale.
Core samples have shown that beneath this bedrock is shale similar to the permeable shale in the Van der Lip disaster.
But the future of Thorn industries lies not only in solar energy, in shale oil, and the force of gravity.
And some mica, shale limestone.
I am Henry the Red. Duke of Shale, Lord of the Northlands and leader of its people.
And some mica. Shale. Limestone.
Be careful of this damn shale.
If you'lljust stay close behind me, mind the shale on this floor.
Right now, looks like we're coming into some shale.
You got plenty shale, sandstone and limestone.
Well, if we weren't looking for cats, I'd be hunting for oil shale.
One is by that shale cliff you saw on your way in.
This shale is similar to the permeable shale in the Van der Lip disaster.
Shale a tent and- Don't worry. please.
I'd like to shale them with you.
But one day a beam gave out. and a load of shale came down on me.
Dr. Shale, please call the page operator. Deborah!
You haven't begun that oil-shale analysis for Roger.
What oil-shale analysis?
Duke of Shale, Lord of the Northlands and leader of its people.
Primarily in the Pierre Shale region of South Dakota.
She was found in the same shale bings in exactly the same circumstances.
Probably don't know what a shale bing is' do you?
Shale was compressed to extract oil to make paraffin.
Listen, Wang, now, we got a great new line on this shale oil technology.
It's a process used to obtain natural gas from shale rock.
They drill until they hit gas-bearing shale.
She's-she's been in Alberta, working on a takeover of a Canadian shale oil outfit.
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It would enhance US economic competitiveness, especially relative to Europe, given the lower costs involved in the extraction of shale gas.
In the short run, the US shale-energy revolution has replaced high-polluting coal with cheaper, cleaner natural gas.
With many more countries set to tap shale-gas reserves over the next decade, this downward trend will most likely continue, helping to lower the price of electricity generation further.
Fracking technology has also enabled the US to tap its large shale-oil reserves, making it the world's largest petroleum producer, ahead of Saudi Arabia.
Even the much-heralded shale-gas revolution is a lot of hype - similar to the gold rushes and stock bubbles of the past.
Shale-gas wells deplete far more rapidly than conventional fields do.
Some attribute the price drop to the US shale-energy boom.
A more likely culprit for the steep price decline is a combination of the shale-energy revolution in the US and the sharp slowdown in Chinese growth.
Within the past six years, shale gas alone has doubled potential gas resources in the United States and halved the price.
While many other countries also have considerable shale-gas potential, problems abound, including water scarcity in China, investment security in Argentina, and environmental restrictions in several European countries.
With respect to climate change, however, the effects of greater reliance on shale gas are mixed.
Important energy technologies will include conversion of coal to liquids (such as gasoline), use of tar sands and oil shale, and growth in non-fossil-fuel energy sources.
Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, described the global map of major shale oil and gas deposits.
Moreover, it will be years before any oil actually begins to flow from the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and how much shale oil and gas actually exists in northeastern Mexico is unknown.
The boom in this so-called shale-gas production has allowed the United States to become almost self-sufficient in natural gas.
Exploration is proceeding only hesitantly and shale-gas production has not even started, prompting many observers to lament that Europe is about to miss the next energy revolution.
There is a huge difference between potential deposits hidden somewhere in large shale formations and recoverable reserves that can actually be produced economically.
In fact, estimates by the International Energy Agency suggest that the most significant recoverable reserves of shale gas are in the US and China, not Europe.
Moreover, even these estimates are really not much more than educated guesses, because only in the US have shale formations been subject to intense exploration over a period of decades.
This is a fortunate coincidence, because shale-gas production would probably make it politically easier to phase out Poland's economically and environmentally irrational subsidies to local coal production (and consumption).
But pro-fracking critics of the European Union miss a second point: the EU has no authority over the development of shale gas in Europe.
A seldom-mentioned reason is that shale-gas development in the US has benefited from important tax incentives - a model that Europe has no reason to emulate.
But the most crucial - and almost always overlooked - point about fracking is that shale gas, like all hydrocarbons, can be used only once.
The real issue is thus not whether shale gas should be developed in Europe, but when it should be used: today or tomorrow.
Despite the hype about the shale-gas revolution, the extraction cost of (onshore) conventional gas remains below that of shale gas.
From an economic (and environmental) standpoint, fracking is thus unlikely to bring large benefits for Europe: shale gas might simply substitute for plentiful conventional gas.
This represents another advantage for Europe, where prices for natural gas were, until recently, several times higher than in the US, which had been benefiting from lower-cost shale energy.
An old quarry was being widened and leveled, and the boys followed the bulldozers as they scraped away a stratum of earth to reveal fragile, fossil-bearing shale underneath.
In principle, Mexico's economy should be benefiting from the same shale-gas revolution that is providing a huge boost to the US, where natural-gas prices are now less than one-quarter of what Europeans pay.
Thanks to the shale-energy revolution, American oil production has risen from five million barrels per day in 2008 to 9.3 million barrels in 2015, a supply boom that has so far persisted, despite the price collapse.
First, we should recognize that even as oil becomes scarce, other fossil fuels such as coal, gas, and unconventional sources such as shale and tar sands, will remain plentiful for centuries.
The plan highlights the need to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by shale gas and newly discovered oil reserves.
In this sense, the US has come to Europe's rescue in a different way: Its production of shale oil and gas is likely to play a greater role in keeping Russia at bay than NATO troops on Europe's eastern borders.