jenny 12 April, 2012 Oil Pipeline in Alaska “Built in the 1970s after oil was discovered at Prudhoe Bay (1968), the 48-inch diameter, 800-mile pipeline links Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean with the terminal at Valdez, the northernmost ice-free port in the Western Hemisphere.” (Aurora Webmasters). The oil pipeline in Alaska is modem project. It was perfect designed for environmental safety; however, it was upsetting animal trails. It was also representatives for oil industry and developed economic in Alaska. Alaska pipeline is the largest pipeline system in the world.
The Columbia drops almost two thousand and seven hundred feet from British Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. This large drop in such a short distance (compared to other major rivers) is what makes it so practical to build dams on it. There are eleven dams on the main stem of the Columbia River and many more on the tributaries. Some of these other dams had fish ladders installed during their construction. These ladders allow the fish to continue their migration of the river and permit them to spawn further upriver.
“Higgins Industries grew from being a small Southern boat company to owning and operating seven large plants, employing 30,000 employees at one point in their operation. During WWII, Higgins Industries was the largest producer of landing craft and PT boats for this country, even blocking off city streets in New Orleans to build
The refinery has devoted many millions of dollars in strategies to control pollution since its creations, yet before the safety regulations of the country were passed. Chevron Richmond refinery was already controlling its pollutant discharges on a conventional treatment system build in the 1960s and 1970s. The first stage of this system uses primary treatment to remove pollutants from water, largely by scanning the oil and hydrocarbons.
Environmental Protection Agency estimated that 70 to 140 billion gallons of water are used to fracture 35,000 wells in the United States each year. This is approximately the annual water consumption of 40 to 80 cities each with a population of 50,000. Fracture treatments incoalbed methane wells use from 50,000 to 350,000 gallons of water per well, while deeper horizontal shale wells can use anywhere from 2 to 10 million gallons of water to fracture a single well. The extraction of so much water for fracking has raised concerns about the ecological impacts to aquatic resources, as well asdewatering of drinking water aquifers. It has been estimated that the transportation of a million gallons of water (fresh or waste water) requires 200 truck trips.
(PTEN) is the second-largest land-based oil and gas drilling and exploration company in North America. Patterson operates within three business segments: Contract Drilling, Pressure Pumping and Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production. Contract drilling makes up 65% of total revenues, pressure pumping makes up 33% of revenues and oil and natural gas exploration and production makes up 2% of revenues. Patterson operates primarily in the Southwestern and Northeastern regions of the United States with 308 contract drilling rigs and 631,070 hydraulic horsepower in pressure pumping equipment; and operates 20 contract drilling rigs in
HRM EXPERIENCE: LEARN ABOUT UNIONS Valerie Lieber MGT 2500 Human Resource Management February 20, 2015 The United Steelworkers This is the largest industrial union in North America with 1.2 million members and retirees. On March 7, 1937 the union signed its first contract with Carnegie-Illinois Steel for $5 a day wage and benefits. In October of 1946 the steelworkers in Hamilton, Ontario won a historic strike for union recognition at Steel Company of Canada. In April 2005 they had more than 850,000 active members in over 8,000 bargaining units in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. They are the dominate union in paper, forestry products, steel, aluminum, tire and rubber, mining, glass, chemicals, petroleum and other basic resource
One resource that is at high risk of being contaminated due to fracking is water. The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated that up to 140 billion gallons of water are used for 35,000 wells each year. Fracking procedures are even excluded from the safe drinking water act of underground injection controls and regulations except when diesel fuel is being used. That means these companies that perform fracking procedures avoid using diesel so that we have no idea what they’re putting in to the ground. Even some states allow fracking to be exempt from state water use regulation, an agreement limiting large water withdrawals; despite the fact that each fracking well uses up to five million gallons of locally sourced water.
The United States consumes roughly 600 billion cubic meters of natural gas every year while we only produce about 500 billion cubic meters. ANWR could hold trillions of cubic meters of uncovered natural gas. North America is said to contain 3 percent of the world’s natural gas (naturalgas.org). Natural gas has been discovered in the north Alaskan region but it has been said that it is only the tip of the iceberg and that there is much more to be found. According to a spokesman there is some eight billion cubic feet of natural gas is drawn from existing fields in the ANWR every single day that is re-injected into the ground because there is no pipeline to carry the gas to the United States or Canada (Nationalgeographic.com).
Water Pollution in Lake Huron Arthur T. Plyler Jr. Strayer University Professor Matthew Norsworthy English 115 November 23, 2013 Water Pollution in Lake Huron Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes and is the third largest lake in the world. Leading other lakes with a shoreline that stretches almost four thousand miles, containing a vast number of islands, an ecosystem that’s home to many unique plants and animals, some that are globally rare, and a population from the United States and Canada of 2.7 million. It’s no surprise that Lake Huron has been faced with pollution issues for decades. Here we will identify the major causes for the pollution and answer how this effects the economy and the surrounding population. Lake Huron