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Example sentences for: shale

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USAT 's "Money" section brings word that the chemical company FMC is in serious talks with the federal government and Shoshone-Bannock Indian reps to settle a lawsuit alleging that FMC's fifty-year-old shale extraction operation at the tribe's southeastern Idaho reservation has left a significant number of Native Americans with lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses.
These deep caves were the scene of a mini gold rush in 1861, when New Englanders poured into the area to pan a few — very few — nuggets from the shale on the beach.
I can't believe Gary Hart, as senator from this very state, was willing, at one point, to grind up the Rockies into shale oil.