Wayward Water - Page 1 of 44 Welcome to an EthicsGame Hot Topics Dilemma! Few issues have recently gotten as much attention as the energy extraction activities involving a controversial procedure called "fracking." As reports of drinking water becoming tainted with fracking fluid flood the news‚ both oil and gas companies as well as environmental groups are presenting competing "facts" about the effects of drilling on ground water. Economists are often asked to prepare reports with
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The History of Public Utilities A public utility is a business that supplies an amenity to the public at large. Public utilities provide water‚ electricity‚ natural gas‚ telephone service‚ trash and other essentials. With the rise of the cellular phone the telephone utility has seen a decrease in use. Typically a public utility has a natural monopoly on the service it provides. It is more economically efficient to have only one business provide the service. When it comes to charging for the services
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In Texas‚ we depend on the oil and gas industry for jobs. There are big issues with how companies get oil out of the ground‚ particularly fracking‚ which many say is bad for the environment. An example of human environment interaction outside of the U.S. is the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. Location in geography is all about where places are. Absolute location is exactly where a place
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Hydrofracking By Zach Burkhart Marcellus Shale is a geologic formation containing natural gas that stretches across much of the Eastern U.S.‚ from New York to Tennessee. It has been a topic of hot debate over the past few years and continues to be a point of contention between landowners‚ governments‚ institutions‚ and private companies‚ even earning the attention of President Obama in his 2012 State of the Union speech. While geologists have known of the Marcellus Shale for years‚ early estimates
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Renewing America’s Energy Dropping gas prices‚ hills covered in rows of wind turbines‚ panels that flash the dessert with glare from the sun‚ and newly formed boomtowns that have doubled their population in four years. While this may seem like a foreign nation sometime in the future‚ this is the US in the present day. The story behind the success is the result of a basic economics principle: when a producer begins to make a higher profit on his product‚ more producers join this industry. This has
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California to enact the 1884 Sawyer’s Decision‚ which prevented miners from dumping debris into rivers. However‚ the problem went well beyond the elevation of the rivers‚ because another issue that arose was the contamination of water. In The Truth About Fracking‚ Chris Mooney wrote‚ “When multiple ‘fracks’ are done in multiple‚ adjacent wells‚ however‚ the risk for contaminating drinking water may rise” (8). Mooney‚ understood that each time the hydraulic mining occurred‚ there was a great chance of contaminating
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examples of how current environmental issues are deeply connected to the financial interests of many influential people. He then addressed the effects of corporate interests on political decisions relating to dealing with climate change‚ such as fracking‚ fossil fuel consumption‚ and pollution. Gore wraps together his prophetic book with suggestions for those who‚ like him‚ wish leave a positive carbon footprint. Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was not only an informational book
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com) has launched Evolution Lubricants & Technologies (www.evolutionoil.biz) focusing on green technology lubrications solutions for industry‚ automotive and oil & gas markets. Evolution Lubricants & Technologies offers superior lubricants‚ oils and fracking solutions which outperform industry standards while improving client efficiencies and reducing costs. E3 develops and commercializes key technologies for water reclamation projects in the oil & gas industry‚ mining services and industrial pollution
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United States it’s done frequently. “Deep well injection involves drilling a hole that is a few thousand feet deep and injecting toxic substances at extremely high pressure so they will penetrate deep into the Earth.” (Saukko Par 2) This is called fracking and is used to bring fossil fuels to the surface. “According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) there are about 360 such deep injection wells in the United States.” (Saukko Par 2) Not only is there deep well injections‚ there are also
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Ishmael‚ Mother Culture‚ and Earth in the Twenty-First Century Ishmael is the most relevant environmental novel of the twentieth century‚ and it continues to be relevant today. Ishmael throws light upon the fact – hushed‚ to humanity by cultural conditioning - that human supremacy is a false idea. People need to read Ishmael because without the crucial knowledge that “we have much to learn from indigenous hunter/gatherer societies about who we are as humans and how to coexist sustainably with
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