Tar Sands and Shale.

pelting them with stones of shale,

And shale is not quite completely competent rock.

Core samples have shown that beneath this bedrock is shale similar to the permeable shale in the Van der Lip disaster.

To my right is sheer shale. It's coming off.

In the State of Texas, they regulate 515 professions, from well driller to florist.

Two thirds of the world's shale is in the US.

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and We made its topmost part its nethermost, and rained on them stones of shale.

The shale would like some shoring, and so parts of it are caved in in there.

So when Our edict came, We made its topmost part its nethermost, and We rained on it stones of laminar shale,

Shale is an exceptionally poor fuel, pound for pound containing about one third the energy of a box of breakfast cereal.

For instance, when you go frack a shale and you pull gas out, a lot of radon comes out with that too.

If you are investing in tar sands or shale oil, then you have a portfolio that is crammed with sub prime carbon assets.

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Recent breakthroughs have allowed the extraction of unconventional natural gas, such as shale gas, which might help offset decline in the years ahead.

The first one was Barnett Shale in Texas and then the Marcellus up in the Northeast across New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Haynesville in Louisiana.

But it goes a mile and a half in a straight line, due east into the range, into very interesting territory except that, as you'll see when we go inside in a minute, we were hoping for limestone but in there is just shale.