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...most dramatic sign that shale had finally arrived came from Exxon (now ExxonMobil), the world's largest oil company. In May 1980 Exxon bought control of the Colony Oil Shale Project, a promising pilot venture near Parachute. Exxon paid $300 million up front and said it would invest at least $2 billion. The plant was supposed to produce 47,000 bbl. a day by 1985. And that was only the beginning. An internal corporate report predicted that by the mid-1990s Exxon would be producing 2 million bbl. a day from shale--enough to slice U.S. imports 20%. To accommodate...
...miss the opportunity? Ever since the 1920s, oil-shale pilot plants have been opening and closing in Colorado, reflecting the Federal Government's failure to develop a consistent energy policy. But in 1980, at long last, shale seemed poised for takeoff. Two traumatic Persian Gulf oil crises in the 1970s had sent oil prices zooming and had given rise to high hopes in Washington and the oil industry that shale would develop into a synthetic-fuel industry. To encourage domestic production, Congress enacted the synfuels tax credit and also created the Synthetic Fuels Corp. As envisioned by President Jimmy Carter...
...frauds perpetrated in their name - spaghetti on toast, with meatballs, from a can. "We don't say the chef has to be Italian - just of the Italian school," says Crea. "If the French were certifying restaurants, the chef would need to be French, full stop." After a pilot project in Belgium and Luxembourg, the inspections roll out through France, Germany, the U.K., Scandinavia, the Netherlands, America and Japan. Restaurants will have to pay €3,000 to €4,000 for the first inspection and j1,000 for yearly follow-ups. "I don't think anyone will do it," says...
...Before long the beat skips and stalls, as if some digital demon in the stereo were trying fervently to spin the disc the other direction. Later, over a beat that features an incessantly ringing cell phone, Ace warns, “Don’t get cooked by the pilot light / I can smell metal in the air tonight...
That show changed my life. The actors were improvising, and my mind was going with them. It was like an oven whose pilot has burned out, and suddenly the pilot is lit. I was so excited. I phoned Andrew Alexander in Toronto, who ran Second City there. He told me a cast member was leaving, and a week later I joined the Second City...