An article in the Times of London.

An article in the New Statesman.

Rabbi Yonah, who blogs about the environment from a Jewish perspective, wrote about the oil shale extraction at Jewlicious .

An article in Haaretz about foreign billionaires' claim that the destruction of the heart of ancient Judah expresses "Zionist" goals.

An article at Green Prophet, the leading website on the environment and the Middle East.

An article about the work-stop order from the regional council, after IEI violated the terms of its exploratory drilling license.

An article on an Israeli environmental-news website from March 5, 2010, expressed the opposition of the head of the regional council, Moshe Dadon, to the oil shale project.

A lengthy article appeared in the Jerusalem Report of March 1, 2010. A follow-up letter appeared on April 26.

A television item appeared on Israel's Channel 1 on January 18.

An article from the oil company Shell about their pilot project, which showed technologic but not economic  feasibility  and failed to answer the concerns about the destruction of the area around a commercial extraction plant

Congressional testimony from a Shell executive, who is asking to relax environmental regulations in the US to allow shale mining; their alternative is to do it in other countries, like Israel. The executive describes "the long history of unsuccessful attempts to responsibly and economically develop oil shale." Unfortunately, even if the current attempt extracts oil and fails to make a profit, those who love Adullam will still pay the price.

An article explaining the significance of shale oil to residents of the western US; part of a site with a neutral analysis of the oil shale issue from the University of Colorado.

A video accompanying the above article.

A report on the geological and political aspects of oil shale extraction in Israel.

An article explaining the damage done by oil shale extraction. And it should be noted that the US has large spaces far from human view; the center of Israel does not.

A report from the US Environmental Protection Agency on ground-water contamination caused by oil shale extraction. A quote: "[m]ost, if not all, in-situ fossil fuel recovery operations ... appear to have caused some ground water contamination.'

An article on the effect of oil shale on the Western United States.

Photos and details on oil extraction from shale from Argonne National Laboratories in the US.

A fact sheet from the US Department of Energy  -- whose mission is the maximization of energy extraction -- on oil shale.

Information on the massive water consumption in the extraction process.

Wikipedia on the environmental effects of oil shale extraction.

Position paper from the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel opposing the current oil shale project.

A map showing the area assigned to the oil shale mining permit.

A video showing the beauty of the Adullam park.

A video showing the digging machines  at work and alongside it areas of the park which as yet remain untouched.

An article about IEI.

Minutes from a meeting with IEI, 15 January 2010.

A video from Harold Vinegar, former chief scientist of Shell and holder of 10% of IEI shares. Images of pilot extraction plants in the US show the oil production facilities which we can expect in our park, together with the access roads and trucks needed to service them. Each such plant may or produce marginal profit for the oil company, though none has yet passed the profitability threshold. With a large number of such extraction facilities, Vinegar's company will make a profit; bike riders and others who love the park will pay the price.