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'Fracking' the Monterey Shale -- boon or boondoggle?
2013-12-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: "Eureka!" reads the California motto, originated in the 19th century Gold Rush. Now some believe the state is on the cusp of a 21st century bonanza, only this time it will be oil that fuels a Golden State boom. Modern prospectors are eyeing the Monterey Shale formation, a 1,750-square-mile resource-rich swath of land in the San Joaquin Valley. Lying deep beneath the valley's surface is a trove of shale oil -- some 15.42 billion barrels' worth, according to an estimate by the U.S. Energy Information...
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A Boon for British Wine As the Climate Changes
2013-12-14 01:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: For more than a decade, Matthieu Elzinga ran his own vineyard in the western Loire Valley of France. But this year, just as he was gaining an international reputation for his dry and crisp Muscadets, Mr. Elzinga sold the vineyard and moved to an emerging wine region: the south of England. A successful French winemakers leap to Britain may sound contrarian traitorous even. But it may be no more striking than the fact that English sparkling wines have recently been beating Champagnes at international...
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U.S. Energy Sector a Boon for Engineers, Contractors, Crafts
2013-11-27 17:42:34| ENR.com: Headline News
The U.S. shale oil and natural gas boom is spurring tens of billions of dollars in design and construction work, speakers said at the Nov. 15 ENR Energy Construction Summit in Houston, but training enough workers will be a key challenge.
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Scripps Oceanography researchers increase lipids yields in microalgae without compromising growth; potential boon for economical algal biofuels
2013-11-22 17:30:26| Green Car Congress
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Oil's new potential: the 20bn boon that still lies offshore
2013-11-12 00:06:14| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Changes to the way the oil and gas sector operates could produce at least three to four billion additional barrels of oil over the next 20 years, a report claims.
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