Word: shale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adel F. Sarofim, professor of engineering at MIT and a director of the Exxon-sponsored research project, said yesterday one of the project's goals is to discover clean combustion techniques for fossil fuels such as coal, coal liquids, shale oil and heavy crude oil. The fuels now require heavy preliminary refining...
Last July Carter pledged to use the proceeds of his proposed tax to set up an Energy Security Corp. to help develop an enormous new industry for the production of gas and oil from alternative sources such as shale and coal. Other revenues were to go for bolstering mass transit, subsidizing energy conservation and helping poor people pay part of the increased cost of fuel...