Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Increasing opposition by conservationists and state government officials to heedless strip-mining and offshore oil drilling has also sharply limited the future exploitation of U.S. fuel reserves. Sums up S. David Freeman, director of a Ford Foundation study of energy: "Environmental goals and energy demands are on a collision course...
...vast amounts of shale found in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming could also be important sources of oil, yielding about 25 gallons for every ton excavated. Both shale mining, which leaves great quantities of waste material above the surface, and strip-mining for coal despoil the landscape. But the exploited landscape could satisfactorily be restored-at a price...
...adults opposed concessions on the West Bank (v. 41% a year ago). Other findings: 96% want to keep Sharm el Sheikh and 93% the Golan Heights; 63% are prepared to give up part of the Sinai Desert in return for a peace settlement, but 66% feel that the Gaza Strip, formerly held by Egypt, is not negotiable...
...Define the environmental rules for strip-mining so that more coal can be produced...
...wine merchant from Le Havre, described the paintings that have earned him a reputation as France's most eminent living artist as well as its official culture scourge. The three decades of his output now displayed in an enormous retrospective at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum resemble a strip-mining operation. With indefatigable and clamorous gusto, Dubuffet has chewed up whole tracts of land once thought to be outside culture...