Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Meet The Oil Shale Eighty Times Bigger Than The Bakken - Forbes

But as great as the Bakken is, I learned last week about another oil shale play that dwarfs it. It’s called The Bazhenov. It’s in Western Siberia, in Russia. And while the Bakken is big, the Bazhenov — according to a report last week by Sanford Bernstein’s lead international oil analyst Oswald Clint — “covers 2.3 million square kilometers or 570 million acres, which is the size of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico combined.” This is 80 times bigger than the Bakken.

Wind of change - Telegraph

Telegraph View: George Osborne's proposal to cut wind farm subsidies is welcome and necessary.

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Climate change is a problem that humanity is failing to ignore hard enough.

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