"SIX", mutters the owner of Standard Broilers as he slips his hand out of a dead chicken and counts half a dozen mucky eggs from a pile into a bag in exchange for 21 rupees (40 cents).
This week further evidence emerged that if America isn't interested in Canada's mucky tar sands, China is.On July 23rd CNOOC, a Chinese state-owned oil giant, announced it had reached a $15 billion deal to buy Nexen, a Canadian energy firm with big holdings in tar sands and expertise in drilling for shale gas, another unconventional hydrocarbon.
The snag, of course, is that it takes far more energy and money to squeeze oil out of this mucky stuff than it does to pump it out of the ground at a conventional oilfield.Undaunted, energy companies have ploughed billions of dollars into bringing down the cost of producing oil from tar sands.
"I used it whenever possible".In this section If you know of a better 'ole, go to it Bill of wrongs The limit reached Blame the army for mucky rivers, too And then, among the also-runnings . . .
Last year, when he was a plucky outsider running against the mighty Clinton machine, he vowed to break with the mucky money politics of the past by adhering to the strict spending limits that come with public subsidy.
They are fed meal made from smaller fish, which are caught in the mucky waters of the North Atlantic.
The site, which takes up about one square mile, once housed chemical factories, gasworks and other mucky industries; centuries-worth of reeking goo are now being removed from the soil by gigantic washing machines.
That effort came to be seen as greenwash as punters realised that the company's dabbling in greenery did not take away its zeal to produce and alas, it turned out, recklessly spill gargantuan quantities of the mucky black goop that has always been the main source of its profits.Not long after that, Suntech, a Chinese solar-panel manufacturer, skyrocketed to the top of the world solar industry.
Poland's ambitious go-getting middle classes are a formidable force in business and the arts, but tend to shun politics as a mucky soap opera.But look a bit deeper and some signs of change emerge.
TWO mucky elections, two flawed sets of candidates, two sighs of relief.
The mucky business of digging ore out of the ground, shipping it across the oceans and turning it into steel, the feedstock of industry, is at the other end of the economic food chain from the trade in credit-default swaps, collateralised debt obligations and other esoteric financial instruments.
