Sentence examples for shale mining from inspiring English sources

There has been, however, growing concern about the environmental impact of both groundwater pollution from oil shale mining and sulfur dioxide emissions from the Narva power plants.

An example of these scenarios is the development of shale mining that has started in recent years in different countries.

Given its potentially negative impact on environment, shale mining can represent an opportunity for environmentally friendly economic growth in the countries that have stringent institutions [1].

Upstate New Yorkers held anti-fracking placards in favor of retaining the moratorium on shale mining in the state.

After decreasing two decades, oil shale mining started to increase again at the beginning of the 21st century.

Oil shale mining involves a number of environmental impacts, more pronounced in surface mining than in underground mining.

Most of the oil shale mined in Estonia is burned for electricity generation, but production of shale oil has increased significantly over time.

My grandfather, brother, stepfather, stepbrother and cousins were all coal miners at one time, and my dad worked in an oil shale mine.

On demobilisation, and happily married to his beloved Esther, Pender worked in the shale mines, and on their closure transferred to the new British Motor Corporation plant at Bathgate, brought to West Lothian by the Macmillan government precisely because pits were closing.

A fall in the oil price could doom the industry, as happened in the 1980s when a lot of shale mines went out of business.But just as fracking has proved more economic and less environmentally damaging than sceptics expected, the new techniques for squeezing the hydrocarbons out of shale have the potential to disrupt the oil business once more.

Their fossilized remains were discovered in the Messel Pit, a former coal and oil shale mine near Frankfurt, Germany, that is famous for its exquisitely preserved fossils.