Monday, April 16, 2012

Blog 13: Shale Oil Impact in Russia


Shale oil is unconventional oil produced from oil shale by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution.  Most resulting oil can be used as fuel. Products can be used to the same purposes as those of crude oil. European countries forge ahead with developing controversial energy source. Slashed gas prices and led nations from China to Portland. Mining for oil shale involved many environmental impacts on surface and underground, including acid drainage by sudden rapid exposure of buried materials, introduction of metals including mercury into waters and groundwater, and erosion, sulfur gas emissions and air pollution caused by the production of particulates.

Oil is becoming one of those things that everyone fights after. Oil is destroying many things, the economy and planet, and people and countries themselves. Everything needs oil to work and that is way it is so fought after is it tough not to want it and depend on it. But since we have reached our peak oil and are now coming down the hill, things need to start changing to we can stop our dependence and change the world and start using better resources. Oil is affecting our world and the more we use it the worst it is becoming to get. The pollution that we are creating can take years to get rid of and with the fact that we just keeping more and more back on to it will never stop and take forever to get rid of. Destroying our planet is not a safe way. It hurts the homes of the people that live there and the animals that live there. Resources will begin to run dry and there will be nothing we can do.

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