Oil Shales

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Focusing on the environmental and health implications, this book delves into the composition and processing of oil shales, highlighting the risks posed to communities from mining activities. It discusses how the mineral constituents of spent shales, which can contain toxic metals at significantly higher concentrations, threaten water and soil quality. Additionally, the text critiques the economic viability of oil shales as an energy resource, emphasizing the heavy subsidies required from governments and institutions to support their extraction and processing.