I was reading Letters to the Editor in the Otago Daily Times (5 December 2008) and found a report that Hydrocarbons in shale was the new 'Black Gold' and the writer was fearing for the ecological sanity of the Central Otago area.
Well old Russell Ewing was cleverer that he was given credit for.
I remember him showing me some shale - it looked just like river-worn quartz rock to me. But if was smooth and 'slippery' to the touch. He kept a bit of it in his truck and on the windowsill of his office.
'One day,' he told me, 'people will extract kerosene from this rock - even jet fuel!'
I had respect for old Russell, but I did not full believe this, but it remained stored in the storage file of my brain.
I read that in the paper and realised that he was correct!
I don't know anything else about it, but thought I would share what I know.
About Me
- Footsteps NZ-TZ
- I trained as a Forest Ranger and have spent a lifetime growing/harvesting trees in sustainable plantation forests. I have also been involved in the protection of indigenous forest, though are not totally against sustainable utilization. I have also worked as a nurseryman/manager, encouraging the planting of trees as a way to improve the planet, conserve soils and regulate rainfall. My life-changing experience was to use my skills in order to help improve the living environment of some village people in Tanzania and do some other projects such as rainwater harvesting and school building. I worked there for some seven years. There were some 28 primary and 7 secondary schools involved with the projects - all of them in the poorer rural areas surrounding the base of Mt Meru, Tanzania. I call the first NGO I worked for Hifadhi, meaning Conservation. The bulk of my time was with DME.
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