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Environmental impact of the oil shale industry
Environmental impact of the oil shale industry
includes the consideration of issues such as
land use
,
waste management
, and
water
and
air pollution
caused by the
extraction and processing
of
oil shale
.
Surface mining
of
oil shale deposits
causes the usual environmental impacts of
open-pit mining
. In addition, the
combustion
and
thermal processing
generate waste material, which must be disposed of, and harmful atmospheric emissions, including
carbon dioxide
, a major
greenhouse gas
. Experimental in-situ conversion processes and
carbon capture and storage
technologies may reduce some of these concerns in future, but may raise others, such as the pollution of groundwater.
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