Along with a possibility of creating a large job market here in the U.S. with upwards of 600,000 people needing to operate this endeavor, we could take back our economy. The con for this is that it is still too new for us to determine what it can do to the land around where the fracking is taking place. There have been reports of water contamination as well as earthquakes due to displacing tectonic plates. There needs to be a more conclusive study done in order to determine whether or not oil and gas companies should be allowed to engage in fracking. At this time, I could not conclusively say yes or no to allowing fracking in the U.S. 2.
In the year of 1877, employees working for the four largest railroads went on strike due to the fact that their employers cut their wages by 10 percent; this was known as the Great Rail Road Strike. This strike was unsuccessful because it got out of hand, and President Hayes called in the federal troops to quell the unrest brought by the striking laborers. Because of the failure of the Great Rail Road
Mine Rescue Association, 2012) The reason the mine was highly explosive was because of the coal dust buildup. Two year before the presence of the explosion, Frank Perez, who was a mine inspector from the U.S. Bureau of Mines, conducted a federal inspection of Centralia Mine. That same year, Scanlan told Prudent, who was the director of state mining board that he had to shut down the mine because the mine hand had not been cleaned. He also suggested that the company use sprinkler on the roads to help keep the coal dust down. The miners conducted a rotation where they worked four days and cleaned for three days.
Since India is a third world country and a large market, Union Carbide wanted to partner with them so they could achieve first mover advantages of developing petrochemical plants. Even though profits from Indian operations were only 2% at the time they established the plant, there was potential to increase that revenue significantly over time. 2. How could Union Carbide have planned for an event such as the accident in Bhopal? Since the chemicals they were producing were highly toxic and posed serious threats to human life, Union Carbide could have built the plant in a more isolated area of Bhopal.
Because of the devastation of hurricane Katrina many of the United States oil refineries were damaged, causing a decrease in gas supply. The damage to the oil refineries cause them to be shut down. With many of the United States oil refineries shut down, the supply of crude oil was effect and that is what caused an increase in gas prices. Hurricane Katrina resulted in an immediate loss of nearly 1.5 million barrels a day of crude oil from the
Chilean Copper Mine Communication Release Jason Cavin BCOM/275 August 12, 2013 Randall Savely Chilean Copper Mine Communication Release The Chilean Copper Mine collapse was major headlines around the world for several weeks. A total of 33 miners were trapped roughly 300 meters below the surface for over a month. This incident caused nervous and very cautious times for everyone involved, especially the United States rescue and advisory teams. These teams along with local authorities had to keep in mind the different roles of everyone associated with this international incident and how they would receive the message. They also had to keep in mind the potential needs of the families of the miners and the employees of the mine on how they
This includes exposure to light, pollution, weathering, erosion, and people walking through the sites, treasure hunters and vandalism. The damage done to Pompeii alone is expected to cost over 300 million US dollars to conserve the town, although due to the severe lack of funding this can be considered to be an impossible task. As both Pompeii and Herculaneum were initially excavated in the 18th century they have been standing exposed to the elements for hundreds of years, and so all structures have been affected by general deterioration over time. Excavations have left structures unstable and are on the verge of collapse. For example on November 6th 2010 the house of the Gladiators collapsed due to general deterioration and also heavy rainfall – see source B.
6) Hoovervilles were named after Herbert Hoover because he was the president at the time of the great depression. The American people felt like he was to blame for the terrible economy because he raised taxes when he promised that he wouldn't as well as creating the Smoot Hawley tariff which eventually cut America off from foreign trade, tightening the grasp that the depression already had on the U.S. The negative view that the American people had of Hoover was not fair because he put forth more effort than any other president before him to pull America out of a
GM’s current woes are nothing new. During the early 1980s management and assembly line workers in Fremont, California had reached an impasse. More than one fifth of the five thousand workers failed to even show for work daily. The workers believed that their jobs were considered expendable and management blamed the laborers for GM’s problems. A majority of workers had been there over 20 years and were “resistant” to change.
Despite its success in extracting its first barrel of oil in July 1999, Talisman was accused of fueling the civil war, believing that the Sudan government used oil revenues to purchase weaponry. Talisman was also accused of being complicit in the genocide that was taking place in Sudan. This by no doubt has a great impact on Talisman’s reputation and caused a stir of controversy. However, it’s also a learning experience for the company when making future decisions and if ever they encounter similar situations they will be better equipped. What are the learnings from Sudan experience?