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New Life for North Sea Oil Hinges on Coal Gas in $8 Billion Bet
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The mud, shin deep and soot gray, squelches and tugs at John Murray’s work boots, holding them fast.
It’s as though the earth wants to snatch something back, to exact some small payment for the black rock that miners have gouged and blasted from mineral veins half a mile beneath the surface for almost a century now.