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...haven't been any new buildings for a long time, and marks of civilization, like the concrete slabs covering the sewer ditches, are falling apart. Like center cities everywhere, Matadi is giving way to the suburbs: the villages which crowd the circle of hills around the city now use shale-and-cement and concrete blocks for building materials instead of woven cane and occasional tin-and-plywood...
...pollution law with variances he believed necessary to the "economic and social development of the state." He suggested that oil and gas wells should not be covered by a law prohibiting discharge of waste into navigable streams. He supported industrial exploitation of Wyoming's energy resources, favoring immediate oil shale development and helping to triple the amount of state land leased for coal mining...
...Ford Administration expects Hathaway to protect America's interior adequately, especially as "Project Independence" pressure grows for accelerated mining of coal and oil shale. Unfortunately, objections of environmentalists in Washington will not shake Senate reluctance to reject a Cabinet nomination. Only extensive public pressure can now spare the country the critical environmental damage that Stanley Hathaway would permit as Secretary of the Interior...
...addition to these major areas, the Government is pressing ahead on several other research fronts. Oil from shale in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah could supply U.S. needs well into the next century. But processing costs could reach $16 per bbl., well above the current world price of $11. Still, a promising recovery technique is underground processing; fires are set beneath the surface, sweating the oil from the shale so that it can be pumped out. ERDA wants $7.7 million for research into this technique in fiscal '76, up 108% from this year...
...represent a valuable reservoir of technology and capital, but when they act together with the connivance of government, the companies wield economic power sufficient to present the use of American energy sources in a manner consistent with the national interest. The oil industry's opposition to coal liquefaction, cheap shale oil and the stretching of domestic oil supplies through methynol production has caused a tremendous waste of natural resources and a large scale misallocation of technology and capital...