The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

“Oil Shale and Tar Sands Leasing Programmatic EIS Information Center; US Energy Information Administration, “Petroleum Basic Statistics” (July 2008). The US currently produces just over 5 million ...

Natural-gas extraction costs may be plunging, but tar-sands overheads are still extraordinarily high. And even within the core area of shale gas and shale oil, we have vastly contrasting stories.

Specialization: Application of Microwave Energy for Removal of NOx, SOx and VOC's, from Flue Gases, Solid Waste Recycling, Microwave-Based Wet Oxidation, Microwave Wet Calcination of Trona, Oil Shale ...