But the residents of Shale Country are not the only stakeholders in the matter ... these sorts of socioeconomic and environmental concerns would not have even been on the radar of a mining company. In ...

was built by the Oil Shale Mining Company on Dry Fork west of De Beque, Garfield Country, Colorado. Designed from illustrations found in the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on the Scottish oil shale ...

Like the kerogen in oil shale, tar sands' bitumen can be upgraded to synthetic crude oil. Because developing fossil fuels from these resources is different and more intensive than traditional energy ...

(Bloomberg) — Diamondback Energy Inc. is closing in on a deal to acquire closely held West Texas oil producer Double Eagle in a bid to further its dominance in the world’s biggest shale patch, ...

Naturepl.com / David Shale / WWF The deep sea is home to habitats and species ... in the scientific community that a proposed new extractive industry -- deep seabed mining (DSM) -- would have an ...