Whilst not wishing to blatantly advertise I would like to bring to the attention of list members our volume on the Scottish shale oil industry:
The Scottish Shale Oil Industry & Mineral Railways
Harry Knox
232 pages. 275x215mm. Printed on gloss art paper, casebound with printed board covers.
ISBN13 : 9781899889730
£25.00
Available directly from us or via Mike Moore.
Ian
On 18 Jul 2013, at 11:20, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I think this Tuesday's episode was a change to the published schedules
> so just to make sure it doesn't go unheard...
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036tz9t
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> The Long View: Shale gas and UK energy resources
>
> "Today the government and Gas extraction companies are taking stock
> after the publication of a report by the British Geological Survey of
> the potential of larger than expected Shale Gas reserves in the Bowland
> Basin - an area covering most of Lancashire and Yorkshire.
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> IN the early 19th century, with the help of new mining technology
> including steam powered machinery, it became increasingly clear that
> the Yorkshire coalfield stretched far further East than was first
> thought. Huge new seams were being discovered, particularly in the
> Barnsley area, as shafts were sunk in the area east of Wakefield,
> Rotherham and Sheffield.
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> Back then the new reserves created a series of challenges and risks for
> the mining organisations wealthy enough to take the risks. Subsidence
> and firedamp were a fact of mining life. But in the space of half a
> century the relatively limited Yorkshire field outstripped the rest of
> the UK's coalmining production and in the process created huge
> population centres in what had been sparsely populated farming
> country."
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>
> regards
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>
> John A W Lock
>
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