1.   The Bari lands are also threatened by coal mining, and national oil company Maraven has begun seismic tests in the area.

2.   Interior officials say the violations were minor, involving only seismic tests on the plateau, and that they would not have authorized drilling without environmental reviews.

3.   The seismic test is needed to determine potential pathways for hydrogen sulfide and other toxins to reach the surface.

4.   To make all this possible, Khalili had to demonstrate that Superadobe could pass stringent seismic tests and other rigorous building code standards, a process that lasted years.

5.   According to a WWF study, the seismic tests pushed the whales to feed in areas where there was less or lower-quality food.

6.   Brunei Shell plans to use sophisticated seismic tests to find oil, and new horizontal drilling techniques to find reserves that were once unreachable, Darley said.

7.   Initially, Oswald was able to study seismic tests without getting onto the castle grounds.

8.   Last September, Russian environmentalists forced ExxonMobil to stop seismic tests off Sakhalin on the grounds that the tests had pushed gray whales from their feeding ground.

9.   The pressure to expand full-fledged drilling is bound to increase with each seismic test that comes up positive.