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Utah Oil Promising Alternative Oilfield Source
Years of rising energy demands have significantly depleted traditional and easily-acquired energy resources, even as large deposits of unconventional resources have remained undeveloped due to the high expense and complicated technology involved in extracting them. But with the price of crude oil and gasoline up and supply shrinking, nontraditional resources are being seriously considered as [...]
Railroads put money on coal despite pollution, economic concerns
The cloud that hangs over the coalindustry for its contribution to global warming has yet to cast a shadow here, across the vast network of railroad lines that haul coal from the sun-baked flats of the Powder River Basin.
Railroads across the country are spending hundreds of millions of dollars buying locomotives, adding track and building [...]
