To Drill or Not “So, which is more valuable, drilling for oil in ANWR (Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) or protecting it as an untouched wilderness and wildlife refuge?” (Lee, 1) Says Dr. Dwight R. Lee, who is a professor at the University of Georgia, and works in the Terry College of Business where, he is the director of the Ramsey Center for Private Enterprise, and is the Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise. This question is asking should the Untied States drill for oil with the economy today in order to lower gas prices, oil prices, and give people jobs, or do the people of the United States protect one of the national wildlife refuges, which would affect the people and the animals that live in the beautiful land of Alaska. This is something that is being debated and could affect the nations economy, or could drastically change some people’s lives in Alaska. Dr. Lee does not say directly what side he is taking about drilling in the ANWR. But the way that he asks the questions, and states his opinion makes me believe to think he believes in drilling for oil.
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.
Another major potential clash is within US Federal Governments – who are under pressure from their own politicians not to change water allocations. Plans to line the canal that carries water to California’s Imperial Valley are a reasonably sensible conservation project, although the seepage would top up groundwater along the border, supply to Mexico would be reduced. Already, 90% of the Colorado River irrigation is used by the US, and many tributaries are drying up which is creating economic
Although they both have an effect on the ecosystem, conservation and preservation are different. Both conservation and preservation were defined in chapter 4 (John Wiley & Son,2006); conservation is defined as the sensible and careful management of natural resources. Preservation is maintaining and protecting undisturbed areas from any human activity that can alter their "natural" state. After watching the Bridger Teton video, aka Management Area 71, my eyes were opened and I realize that the land can be disturbed because of greed. From when it was said that we had an oil shortage, I remember that a government official stated that we had enough oil in reserve if it came down to using it.
The Canadian Government has the most control over this issue, because they have the power to end commercial hunting and enforce environmental change. The elimination of commercial hunting would greatly increase the chances of seal survival, but the government will need to find a new livelihood for these hunters. Commercial hunters will need to change their occupations or fight for their rights as hunters. Last, research scientists have been interested in harp seals since the 1940s. These scientists play a very important role in developing new ways to protect the seal population.
The path of the caribou is little slightly off its original course but that didn’t really harm them, in addition to that, the effect only applies to two of the twelve populate caribou pack. However the effect didn’t harm the caribou but the woodland cover did take some damage and couldn’t grow back to its original state. Also with the TAP replacing oil tanker transporting oil, have reduce the dead rate of animal by far half of the tanker would do. There also some research, what if road were to build across Alaska it would harm the environment greater than the TAP. Car, oil tanker, truck would pollute the environment when there is road traffic or not.
Aside from the erroneous reasons given by the Bush Administration for fighting the bill, the real reason was to permit the Bush Administration to continue to include trust fund collections in the budget calculations, so that the budget deficit can be made to appear smaller than it really is. This practice continues in 1997, and may be expected to continue in 2002, when the current balanced budget agreement targets a balanced budget. Thus, for a balanced budget agreement to be effective, it must also include safeguards to prevent Administrations and Congresses from using subterfuge to circumvent the intent of any balanced budget agreement. A balanced budget agreement also does not stop the practice of Administrations and Congresses in which many federal government expenditures are not included in the budget calculations, but are, rather, classified as off-budget items. If these off-budget items were included in the current federal budget calculations, the budget deficit would be much higher than that reported.
In the meantime while Canada was out of the oil market, a Norway has became an oil dominated exporter. Canada who by now, was depleted of an oil source, were forced to commence a trade agreement with the Norwegians from whom they now bought their oil from at a higher rate. One wrong move in decision making on whether to hold on to something or make a profit out could significantly change the countries economic position. Both economically and socially has NEP failed to assimilate in the land of Canada. (Bruce Winton, 2) The program was initially enacted to enhance the productions of oil, but instead, it has ceased it, and put its producer in huge
Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) has been a topic of debate for a couple of years now. To Frack or not to Frack in different states is the question. There are many different pros and cons to the topic and it is still up for discussion. The environment is something that many people take for granted and really don’t take into consideration the negative effects it will have on our future and what will come from the earth in the near future. Hydraulic fracturing is a very controversial thing on whether or not we should let oil companies’ drill for oil.
Governments are actually getting involved in preventing health problems. Another reason why governments should get involved in what these companies are serving is because it’s costing the country money when the government has to pay for citizen’s medicine. Due to the current state of the economy, most countries are trying to help people choose healthy foods so that in the future it will not affect the government money in trying to cover its citizen’s medical bills. So far the government in the United States has banned items that contain high amounts of trans-fat in schools from kindergarten up to the 12th grade (U.S. Department of Health, 2012).Having the government involved in children’s food at a young age is very beneficial because studies show that kids who eat better are more focused on their work (Smith, 2012). Also if kids are taught to eat healthy then most of time these kids will follow the same pattern at home (Smith,