Oil Drilling in Alaska There is believed to be between 5.7 and 16 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil in Alaska. The only thing holding us back from drilling there because it would damage a protected national wildlife refuge in the act killing many animals. The controversy of whether to drill there or not has been going on since around 1977. The last two presidents we had were on different sides of how they felt about the drilling. There are many positives to drilling in Alaska but for every
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11 2.2 Global Scenario 11 2.3 Indian Scenario: 17 3 Performance Review of X Plan Period 25 3.1 Introduction 25 3.2 Hydrocarbon Reserve Position 25 3.3 Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production 26 3.4 Implementation of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) 28 3.5 Implementation of Coal Bed Methane (CBM) Policy 28 3.6 Equity Oil and Gas from Abroad 29 3.7 Consumption of Petroleum Products during X Plan 31 3.8 Refining Capacity 32 3.9 Investments 33 4 Review of Policy Measures 36 4.1 Marketing
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Gulf Oil Spill Paper ENV/100 January 09‚ 2013 Gulf Oil Spill Paper On April 20‚ 2010 an explosion on an oil rig in the gulf of Mexico killed 11 people but also unleashed “the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history”(Center for Biological Diversity). A study I came across when researching this disaster by the Center for Biological Diversity shows us the more than 82‚000 birds‚ about 6‚000 sea turtles‚ and nearly 26‚000 other marine animals were harmed due to this oil spill. Not only were
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the cultural and social issue of it were examined. In tutorial‚ we discussed the questions brought up by our own regarding to Laura Kipnis and Stevi Jackson and Sue Scot’s work. Since my tutorial questions were raised based on Kipnis’ work‚ my reflection will also focus on her work. Kipnis in her work relates monogamy to social relation and pointed out that most people have high possibility to cheat on their spouse. From my perspective‚ Kipnis believes that marriage is against love. When she
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BP COMMUNICATION FAILure DURING GULF OIL SPILL CRISIS An important component of crisis management is response. Response can include several actions such as communication with stakeholders‚ the public and the government. Appropriate and effective communication can minimize the distribution of incomplete and inaccurate information‚ reduce speculation and prevent or quell rumors. In fact‚ studies suggest that the message itself can affect the public’s evaluation of the company and perhaps
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Arnulfo Manriquez arm2283 05/06/11 Prof. Anthony G. Hopkins HIS350L Mexico’s Oil Nationalization of 1938 The nationalization of oil companies under the presidency of Lazaro Cárdenas is perhaps one of the most widely discussed instances in Mexican history‚ along with Independence and Revolution. One can see the common theme in these episodes: the explosion of national revolutionary sentiments causing important upheavals in the structures
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The article that I chose for my first reflection paper is about the investigation of Southwest Airlines removing 109 Jewish high school students off of their flight due to being non-compliant. The students were using their mobile devices when told not to as well as not staying in their seats before taking off. However‚ the executive director of the Yeshiva of Flatbush School did not agree with the flight crews’ actions. One of the teachers stated that there were a small group of students in the back
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(NaturalNews) It’s true the almost five million barrels of oil that contaminated the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill was an ecological nightmare. And residents of the area have complained for the last two years that the chemicals dumped into the area as an ill-thought-out solution have made many of them sick. But what about the ocean itself that has been treated as an experimental chemical dump by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and corporate giant BP? Turns out
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BP OIL SPILL IN 2010 April 20th was a tragic day for BP and the crew of the Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon. “Floating fifty-two miles off the coast of Louisiana in 5‚000 feet of water was an oil rig drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.” (Hoffman‚ 2010) What unfolded next will go down in history as the worst accidental oil spill in the world. “The oil well a mile below the surface of the Gulf blew up from high-pressure methane gas expanding into the drill. As a result of the explosion‚ it ended
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beginning of the largest‚most disastrous oil spill in the United States had begun. The oil leak was caused by an explosion that happened at approximately 10:00 p.m‚killing eleven people and injuring seventeen others. Two days later‚ the rig sank and started to leak oil and gas from the well. After about three months of the well (Macondo) leaking oil‚ it finally got capped off on July 15. Within those three months‚ the well had leaked 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The leak did not
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