CASE STUDY: THE CAUSE AND THE EFFECTS OF THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL ENEE 501 – POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL FOR THE ENERGY INDUSTRY HARJOT BHANDAL 10106493 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABTRACT 3 INTRODUCTION 3 BACKGROUND 3 ANALYSIS 5 CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION 5 ENVORNMENTAL EFFECTS 6 ECONOMIC EFFECT 7 CONCLUSION 8 REFERENCES 9 ABSTRACT On the 20th of April 2010‚ a tragic event occurred just off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon
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have not written to you in quite some time‚ but not a day goes by I am not thinking about you. Much time has passed‚ but I don’t suspect I’ll be home by Christmas. Our soldiers are exhausted. Days are spent walking knee deep in mud and worse‚ sometimes waist deep in mud. Many of the men need rest but there is a war that has just begun. My sleeps are less than one hour at a time but I am constantly interrupted by the violent images I have witnessed. The conditions here are horrific. Rats the
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the everyday into the awesome and the unreal. This story depicts a poor family man‚ Pelayo‚ who struggles with the unreal himself on a dark and rainy night‚ when he encounters a man stuck in a pile of mud by his huge wings. The story reads‚ “an old man‚ a very old man‚ lying face down in the mud‚ who‚ in spite of his tremendous efforts‚ couldn’t get up‚ impeded by his enormous wings.” Once Pelayo and his wife Elisenda‚ are told by their wise neighbor woman that the old man is indeed an angel‚
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Luba Msuku Holidays Holidays are for being lazy. And watching TV all day and night. They are for surfing on big waves. Playing in mud and getting dirty. Watching DVD’s. They are for spending time with your family. Swimming with your friends. Making cupcakes with your mom. And flying kites. Having picnics with your family. Watching clouds. Or sitting under a tree. Playing with your brother. Spending time with sister. And going to the beach. And collecting sea shells. Making necklaces. Picking flowers
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The author uses language to create tone in the story “Camp Harmony”. She makes two tones in the story. One tone she creates is sad. Another tone she creates is happy. The authors language creates the tone in the story sad and happy. The first tone is happy. When they were on the bus headed to the camp they were excited about where they were going. The author described fields and farms with chickens‚ cattle‚ and pigs. As they got closer everyone jumped out of their seats and looked out of the window
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home to a community of workmen who constructed and decorated many of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens. The village was constructed by rows of neatly constructed houses made with mud brick walls built on stone foundations. The walls were then lathered in mud‚ which were then painted white on the external surfaces‚ with some of the inner surfaces whitewashed up to a height of around 1m. The tombs constructed for the usage of the village people include small rock-cut
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I did a Hooverville from back in the great depression. I built my Hooverville on a big piece of cardboard. I partly spray painted the big cardboard for a mud look. My Hooverville has five shacks and a lean to. The shacks are made out of cardboard that I also spray painted to look like mud. The shacks are held together with hot glue. On the shacks I used some material to make roofs and door coverings. I made some trees and bushes on my Hooverville too‚ using Spanish moss. I got some sticks
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In the story‚ Nü Kua created humans from yellow earth and mud. “In the Nü Kua myth‚ humans are polarized into ‘rich aristocrats’ made from yellow earth and ‘poor commoners’ made from mud” (CM‚ 34). In many portraits of Nü Kua‚ she is seen holding a builder’s cord. With this cord‚ Nü Kua created the commoners. She was originally creating humans by carefully molding them from yellow earth. Realizing this takes to long‚ she dips the cord in mud and shook it off‚ and the drops created human beings. The
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The sun that had shown so brightly in the morning was giving barely any light now‚ instead everything looked grey. The air was cooled and heavy. Dark clouds raced across the sky. The wind has howling monstrously and was blowing with increased velocity. The seemingly sudden darkening sky as though a curtain has been pulled across the sky.It was a harbinger of a fierce storm. People soon realized it and hurried to their homes. Ditto for me. Immediately‚ I accelerated my pace. Once reached home‚ I
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Colonisation and Succession in an Ecosystem 1. Ecosystem is a community of organisms which interact with their non-living environment and function as a unit. 2. Habitat is a natural environment where organisms live. Also provide shelter‚ food‚ living space‚ nesting sites and mates. 3. Species is a group of organisms that look alike and have similar characteristics‚ share the same roles in an ecosystem and are capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring. 4. Population is
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