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Estonian shale oil company acquires shale interests in Utah

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Herbert: Oil shale has the potential to be one of our nation’s greatest untapped natural resources, and the Uintah Basin here in Utah has potentially millions of barrels of recoverable oil. In Enefit, we have a company which has the technology, commitment, history, and financing to try and bring that oil shale to market.”.

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Electric transit bus maker Proterra enters university market with order from ASUM

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Jordan Hess, ASUM Office of Transportation Director. Proterra’s Total Cost of Ownership was a major selling point for ASUM, given the transit agency’s size and limited resources. In addition to financing the buses through the state of Montana’s INTERCAP program, ASUM received a Diesel Emissions Reduction Act grant from the U.S.

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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The extracted rock can be used directly as a power plant resource or it can be processed to produce shale oil, which in turn can be refined into gasoline, diesel or jet fuels. There are also significant reserves in Jordan, Morocco, Sweden, Syria and Turkey. Different that shale oil—i.e.,

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Report finds Coal-to-Liquids and Oil Shale pose significant financial and environmental risks to investors

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Shell’s recent agreement to develop oil shale in Jordan at a projected cost of $20 billion illustrates the potential cost of these projects. CCS still faces great uncertainty, however, regarding its commercial viability, public financing levels, enabling policies and potential markets for captured CO 2. Earlier post.).

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