Jordan, Royal Dutch Shell Investigate Tapping Environmentally Destructive Oil Shale

photo by Vyacheslav StepanyuchenkoWe'��ve written a number of times on the environmental disaster that is oil shale and tar sands. These so-called '��unconventional'�� fuels are so energy intensive to produce that they can be up to eight times as dirty as normal petroleum. And that doesn'��t even consider the amount of water that is used in the process and which remains toxic afterwards. Jordan to Exploit Oil Shale ReservesWell, it appears that Jordan never got the

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