She said most homeowners do not begrudge laws protecting the plover, a compact, pale shorebird with coloring that makes it all but vanish against the open sand flats where it nests.
Rather than ape Grand Theft Auto, why not give us a big open sand-box Medieval city to explore, with pirate-infested waters, knights in shining LEGO armor, and dragons in the nearby wilderness?
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On reaching the shale, the mixture of water and fracking fluid bursts open the rock and the sand keeps the fractures open, allowing the gas to flow to the surface.
The final leg to the eastern beachside village of Happy Valley is a 6.6km (mostly downhill) stroll through open forest and sand dunes.
On the next hole Davis clambers into a sand trap with me to show me how to open the blade of my sand wedge for a short shot.
The cows will be housed in open-sided sheds, bedded on sand, with whizzy cleaning systems intended to keep things hygienic.
Its budget may be restricted, but Dog In The Sand is an album of wide open musical spaces.
The chemicals facilitate the flow of hydrocarbons, while the sand keeps the pores of the rock open.
Specially formulated lubricants are used in fracking, which involves pumping water, fine sand and fracking fluids underground to split open oil- and gas-bearing rocks.
Shale gas is natural gas that is trapped inside shale rock and is extracted by using a technology called hydraulic fracturing, where highly pressurized water mixed with sand and chemicals is used to crack open rocks.
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Formed by storm tides as early as the 10th Century, the Wadden Sea is responsible for the distinctive formations of its many islands, characterised by high sand dunes and lush, wide beaches on the open sea side and a shallow coast towards the mainland.
One purpose of fracking fluids is to help the sand flow into newly formed fissures and keep them propped open.
Steve Jones, a former Colorado state sand-greens champion, won the 1996 U.S. Open.
Another early beneficiary might be Carbo Ceramics, which sells ceramic pellets the size of grains of sand that are pumped into the rock surrounding the wells to prop open the tiny cracks through which oil and gas flow.
And the scream of snowmobile engines assailed eardrums as 57 racers in colorful gear kicked up big spurts of sand as they gained speed to seemingly defy nature and head out onto the open water.
Carbo Ceramics is a leader in making what's called ceramic proppant, which is the synthetic material, sand-based often, with chemicals that are injected into the fractured rock to hold open the cavities so the natural gas goes up into the piping that captures it.
Carbo Ceramics ( CRR - news - people )(CRR, 73) , a Houston firm that makes various forms of "proppant, " particles (sand or a synthetic substitute) injected along with the fracking fluid to keep the fissures propped open after the pressure is withdrawn.
Habitats in the biosphere reserve comprise barrier islands, beach and sand dunes, salt marshes, maritime forests, tidal creeks, fresh and brackish water impoundments and open water areas.
But he had got over it, practising his moves first on boulders from which he could fall five feet onto sand, gradually working higher, until some hundred feet up he could confidently climb with his palms open and relaxed, as calmly as if he was walking to the store.
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