Sentences with phrase «local oil shales»

Estonia uses local oil shales, obtained by opencast mining and burnt in outdated and polluting plants.

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As fracking became commercially viable, oil and gas drilling companies entered communities with shale gas resources, which can have a number of local effects.

Many local towns and cities have expressed opposition to the project, citing the local dangers of pipeline leaks and wider implications of fracking (the oil bound for the Pilgrim Pipeline originates from the Bakken shale in North Dakota, the same deposits that have increased the volume of oil carried by trains and barges through the Hudson Valley to New Jersey refineries).

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

For the USA it is critical to replace the millions of barrels of expensive imported crude oil used primarily for transportation with local alternates, i, e, more US oil, shale oil or gas, biofuels (NOT corn!)

We talk to people involved in three Friends of the Earth groups, on the potential for community - owned and managed renewables in Denmark, on the perfect plan for transitioning Estonia away from dirty oil shale, and on how local resistance and perseverance has turned a small Czech town into an example of the just transition we need to move away from dirty fossil fuels.

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