Project 1 Paper Project 1 Paper The horizontal fracking of shale oil and natural gas has created a new era of prosperity for business owners in small towns across America‚ largely due to the influx of oil-related business in the area. Williston‚ North Dakota is one such town‚ and the recent oil boom has created a surge in demand for housing as oil workers flock to the area. The Missouri Flats Inn is a hotel located in Williston that has been there since it all began‚ and as a result
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Water Pollution Part II Amanda Norris Groundwater Pollution pg. 502: Describe : Groundwater is the water we drink. Few countries go to the great expense of locating‚ tracking‚ and testing aquifers. Volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) contaminate 90% of the U.S. aquifers‚ but 2% of samples had unsafe VOC levels. The US found that ⅓of the 26k industrial waste ponds didn’t have liners to prevent toxic liquid wastes from seeping into aquifers. The EPA had completed the cleanup of 297k of the 436k underground
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Big Benefits?” Oil & Gas Law Brief. Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann‚ 01 April 2011. Web. 16 April 2012. <http://www.oilgaslawbrief.com/hydraulic-fracturing/hydraulic-fracturing-what-are-the-3-big-benefits/>. Mooney‚ Chris. “The Truth About Fracking.” Scientific American 305.5 (2011): 80-85. Academic Search Premier. Web. 15 April 2012. Noomen‚ Marleen F.‚ et al. “Continuum Removed Band Depth Analysis for Detecting the Effects of Natural Gas‚ Methane‚ and Ethane on Maize Reflectance.” Remote
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percent severance tax that has been constantly suggested could prove to be too much for companies to endure. In regard to the taxation within the state of Pennsylvania‚ Governor Corbett was merely doing what he thought was best. ("Poll: Pa. Backs Fracking; Corbett’s Handling of Issue‚ Less
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Original Assignment Topic Assigned questions: Current news and politics is full of concern about the environment‚ particularly as it is related to oil use and the auto industry. There are a number of ethical considerations that arise out of these issues. Please be sure to answer ALL of the following questions: 1. Some propose that these concerns could be alleviated if our use of cars was limited by increased gasoline taxes--if gas is more expensive‚ we will use less of it and‚ as a beneficial by-product
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My Day at the Museum The Field Museum is not the way I remember as a teenager in High School. The Tour Guides were good two out of three guided exhibits within their area of expertise. The other one did it out of love of the area she guided. Over all the description of the exhibits was good. Sandy was the first one to guide me‚ I arrived extra early. My intention was to arrive thirty minimizes early to get acquainted with the information area and to give them a chance to make the necessary arrangements
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Natural gas seems to me to be equally dangerous despite having the lowest emissions of the three because it is deceptively harmful. On the surface it burns clean but often methane gas leaks in transportation and even the enormous pool of issues that fracking leads to are too frequently overlooked. Again‚ irrespective of these‚ natural gas must be abandoned soon or we will exhaust natural gas reserves before oil is totally depleted. The solution to the fossil fuel problem lies in renewable and green energy
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protect Seattle from taking the brunt of the earthquake. Unlike San Francisco‚ Seattle’s infrastructure is not designed to withstand earthquakes. Houston does not lie on a fault line‚ the only real risk of earthquakes comes from the frequent hydraulic fracking occurs in the area. These earthquakes are minor and usually unnoticeable so there’s no real threat of
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“The Popular Kids” It’s hard to fathom how competently the United States of America has been able to develop as a country in all the years it has existed as a nation. The U.S. is held intact by a democracy that survives on the voices and idea’s of its people; the people being you and me. A supporting wall to the skyscraper that is our government are Special Interest Groups. SIG’s are created so that our rational selves can demand what we find is necessary to maintain‚ gain or change in our society
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Two social problems that are commonly associated with the Appalachian region are the unemployment secondary to the downfall of the coal industry and the ongoing substance abuse. The first problem commonly associated with the Appalachian region is the unemployment secondary to the downfall of the coal industry. A lot of families in the Appalachian region come from a long generation of coal miners. Sons followed in the footsteps of their dads and grandfathers straight out of high school‚ which is
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