Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, received a letter containing ricin, a toxin derived from the castor oil plant.
Plants in this family, which include the rubber tree, castor oil plant and the cassava shrub, are typified by small blossoms, the researchers comment.
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On May 30th, the day after Mr Obasanjo was sworn in as president, militant Ijaw youths in the delta attacked Itsekiri villages just across the water from a large Chevron oil plant.
He also asked the owners to end a monopoly of the nearby palm oil processing plant and share the facilities with the peasants.
By the time she was 30, Al-Tunisi was modernizing the Abqaiq oil processing plant in part by replacing thousands of manually operated valves with electric ones.
Many of them came to work at an Exxon oil shale processing plant.
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Lithuania also has several hydro-electric plants in Kaunas along the Neman River and a diesel-oil fueled electricity plant tied into the northwest region of electrical production for the Soviet Union.
Dr Alamaro wants to use a gas-burning, rather than a coal- or oil-burning plant, because the exhaust produced by burning natural gas is free from sulphur dioxide, which plants hate.
No wonder no one is talking about the cost of hurting tourism in the Gulf, or the West and yes, Alaska, while we plant oil derricks, fracking pads and outdated pipelines in our most cherished places.
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Hodel's Summit Power Group aims to build the first low-emissions coal-gasification power plant in oil-rich west Texas.
Kim insists there will be plenty of electrical power available from nearby dams and an oil-fueled power plant.
Any plant-derived oil qualifies, but most biodiesel in the U.S. comes from soybeans.
Today, operating through various foundations and front companies, the family is also believed to control one of Iran's biggest oil engineering companies, a plant assembling Daewoo automobiles, and Iran's best private airline (though the Rafsanjanis insist they do not own these assets).
The Sunoco plant can process more oil than the Sinclair one, 85, 000 bpd, and it also makes specialty lubricants.
Ricin is derived from the castor plant that makes castor oil.
Intel Chairman CraigBarrettCraig Barrett once compared Intel's flagship x86 microprocessors to a creosote bush, a desert plant that drips poisonous oil, killing off any nearby vegetation.
Intel Chairman Craig Barrett once compared Intel's flagship x86 microprocessors to a creosote bush, a desert plant that drips poisonous oil, killing off any nearby vegetation.
The plant cannot use palm oil or oils fit for human consumption and efforts must be made to recover waste heat and enable it to be used by nearby properties.
Fears that the terrorists utilized insiders and took steps to blow up the plant will likely force oil companies to reassess their security measures, particularly when it comes to vetting contractors.
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In fact, Iran has established a financial and business infrastructure with Chavez's consent and encouragement that now includes banks, gold mining, a cement plant, a tractor and bicycle factory, a tuna processing plant and a joint oil venture.
The oil goes into a de-gasification plant, and then four-fifths of it is stored for export.
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At its Shiraz Solar Power Plant Iran and all the Oil Nations on Earth know the World is going to SOLAR Energy.
Earlier this week, the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that a vice-president of the British oil giant BP was also at the plant at the time of the attack and was killed - a claim BP on which has also not commented.
While keen to put expectations in perspective, D1 Oils, in partnership with oil company BP, has announced plans to plant 50, 000 hectares of so-called "elite seed" this year, capable of producing 2.7 tonnes of oil per hectare.
The Weyburn-Midale CO2 project is burying carbon dioxide from a coal gasification plant in North Dakota in a depleted oil field in Saskatchewan.
Though an attack on an Algerian plant revived fears over the safety of oil-industry operations in remote parts of the Mideast and Africa, BP's deadliest operating locations in the past 14 years were U.S. retail fuel stations.
As in the Gulf, the oil deposits were created during a period of flourishing plant life 80 million years ago, when rivers draining Africa and South America dumped sediments into the narrow and shallow sea then separating the two continents.
And as Jeff Brady explained, getting rock to a processing plant was the major expense that doomed past oil shale efforts.
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That rock also had to be crushed, then transported to a plant where it was cooked to extract the oil and gas.
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