This week for PLN I read Dakota Access Pipeline: What’s at stake? by Holly Yang. Why this topic is blowing up is because where Native American tribes live the government approved a pipeline to be built and where the pipeline is going to be constructed invades the native American’s land. Some background of the Dakota Pipeline is it is a 1‚172-mile pipeline would stretch from the oil-rich Bakken Formation to the southeast into South Dakota‚ Iowa‚ and Illinois. The Army Corps of Engineers approved the
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Pipeline has a high maintenance cost due to materials and remote locations. No to mention‚ there is a cost to lease land throughout the U.S. needed for the pipeline to run through. Once the resource reaches the factors for processing material to convert resource is costly afterwards it must be transported to companies for sale to
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Industry: Keystone Pipeline The Keystone Pipeline has been in news for several months and has been the subject of scrutiny‚ political bantering and environmentalist activism. Keystone Pipeline is a transcontinental synthetic oil project that runs from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Construction of such a pipeline bears many risk associated with ecosystem disruption and environmental hazards. President Obama blocked the pipeline’s extension noting several studies that the pipeline would have adverse
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of minorities; therefore‚ students are forced to go at a slower pace which interrupts their learning. Tara J. Yoso and Daniel G. Solorzano‚ The students at the University of California‚ Mentioned in their article “Leaks in the Chicana and Chicano Pipeline”(2006) that schools are systems which promote white supremacy. They argue‚ “Most graduate programs tend to be racially exclusive featuring predominately white students‚ faculty and curricula that omit Chicana/o histories and perspectives”. As it
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The school-to-prison pipeline targets inner city kids and makes it nearly impossible for them to finish school and have success. Overbearing police presence and zero-tolerance policies give the affected children a disadvantage and forces them to work twice as hard to get half as far. Through less criminalization of children of color and less use of the police force the school-to-prison pipeline can be decreased and ultimately stopped. A zero-tolerance policy was vastly adopted following the 1999
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If there was anything you as a community leader could possibly do to prevent sickness or death among your residents would you do it? In Louisiana there are six parishes surrounding Orleans parish which is New Orleans that have problems or worries about amoeba’s being present in their water supply. It seems in order that I explain what an amoeba is so you know what all the fuss is about. Also‚ I am going to discuss my opinion about what and why the parishes take certain precautions. To keep all residents
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school to prison pipeline. School to Prison Pipeline The school to prison pipeline‚ is a term used to describe the alarmingly increasing number of students having contact with the juvenile criminal court systems‚ because of the implemented zero tolerance policies
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is not concern about them. In 2015‚ the United States’ president Barack Obama took the first step to make aware the world about the detrimental effects of the petroleum to the environment because he denied the construction of an oil pipeline‚ called Keystone Pipeline XL‚ that would connect Texas with Canada’s oil mine in Alberta. Obama stated that the elaboration
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Pak-Iran gas pipeline Pak-Iran gas pipeline project - which would essentially change the face of the ongoing energy crisis in Pakistan for the foreseeable future – seems to be ending in despair. Initially‚ the project too included India. However‚ India dropped out along the way since the negotiations commenced nearly two decades ago. Now‚ there are again reports doing round in media‚ reporting Indian Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid‚ that India might renter negotiations over the IP gas
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these asylum seekers are also being ostracized‚ from the signing of executive orders by the new administration. The White House said that U.S steel is not required for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline‚ despite the executive order that the president signed. The Keystone XL pipeline is a tool‚ that is globalizing North America; it is further connecting the United States and Canada‚ using a product that we all use‚ oil. Mercedes-Benz is recalling about 1 million cars and SUVs‚ because of
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