Estonia looks to oil shale technology exports

摘要

Just as Ireland is among the few countries to burn peat for power, the small Baltic state of Estonia is the centre of the world's oil shale industry. Developed out of necessity, oil shale is the country's only significant energy resource and thus central to its energy security.rnHowever, while Ireland's peat has only limited application elsewhere, Estonia finds itself with unique long-term experience in a potentially major unconventional oil resource. But it is one which goes against the grain of current environmental thinking. Producing either oil or power from oil shale is a highly carbon intensive process.