Word: sulphureous
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...company, has prospered by attracting 32 foreign oil companies to explore and by allowing them to earn handsome profits. Until recently, the companies retained up to 58% of the oil that they produced and gave the rest to Pertamina, which sold it. Now, with prices soaring for its low-sulphur "sweet crude" and production up to 1.4 million bbl. a day, Pertamina is renegotiating its contracts with foreign concerns to bring the government share up to 60% or more...
PICTURE THIS SCENARIO: an ecologically-minded university sends a team of experts to a southern state to study the environmental effects of a proposed power plant. The study determines that if the power plant is built without the proper safeguards, it would emit dangerously high levels of sulphur dioxide. The team of experts is well aware that sulphur dioxide destroys crops, water supplies, and equipment owned by farmers in the area surrounding the proposed plant...
...UTILITY's own statements provide compelling evidence against the plant which will emit 460 tons of sulphur dioxide each day, or 13,000 tons each month. ACORN says that an iron smelter in Ontario emits 8,000 tons a month, and that vegetation within five miles of the smelter is wiped...
Pollution from smoke emission and sulphur dioxide is in decline. There are far fewer polluted rivers than there were in 1958. Infectious diseases have all dropped sharply in the past ten years, and the suicide rate sank in 1970 to the lowest point in 25 years. On the average Britons are now living ten years longer than they did 30 years ago. But they may be enjoying it less...
...stated so definitely and with so much technical precision that it seems to be irrefutable, material fact. It is the sort of language that never smiles, but occasionally seems to wink: "What first impresses in this gloom is the sensation of yellow it imparts not to say of sulphur in view of the associations...