...Summary Shell, one of the largest multinational oil companies planned to dispose of the Brent Spar, which was huge floating oil storage and loading buoy, by sinking it at a site in the deep Northern Atlantic, with full UK Government approval. But a combination of Greenpeace, European Ministers and the public stopped them. In order to ensure that no similar incidents occur in the future, the Shell UK should seek to build an open and transparent process, involve environmental interest group like Greenpeace. Issues Disposal Options: In the last analysis, there were two options; horizontal on-shore dismantling and deep water disposal. Shell qualified the deep water disposal option as Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO). BEPO Process: Several options were evaluated according to engineering complexity, risk to health and safety of workforce, environmental impact, cost, and acceptability by the British authorities and other interested parties, such as fishermen’s associations. It is important to that stakeholders such as Greenpeace were not included. Deep water disposal option: The deep water disposal option had the advantage on the grounds of engineering complexity, risk to health and safety of the work force, and cost (about 11 million pounds versus 46 million pounds). Regulatory Principles: The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) guidelines and UK legislation stipulate that sinking in the ocean is an acceptable option. Shell’ position: Shell was seen to...
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...A day at beach Everyone has a place where they go to escape all the pressures and worries of life. There is always that one spot that can soothe all your problems and troubles in times of stress. For me, the beach is the ultimate cure to all of my problems. While I am there, all of my obligations are suddenly erased. The day was warm and muggy; it was the perfect weather to go to the beach. The water was clear and a rich deep blue in color. Not a patch of seaweed in sight. The fine white sand is burning your feet as you hear the sound of the waves crashing and the cool sea breeze brushing by. I take a deep breath of fresh air and look at the surrounding of people soaking in the sun waiting to get in the water. I slapped on the sunscreen and packed up my gear and ran towards the water, little kids were building sandcastles and having sand fights. I dogged through them and at last I was running through the shallows of the water getting nearer to the in coming wave. I dove straight through the dumping wave, the cool water rushing down my body. I popped back up to the surface, relived that I was finally out of the warm weather and cooled off by the beautiful seawater. Later, my friends decided to join me and we played volleyball in the sand. Everyone brought snacks and later that night we also had a barbeque. After a while, we swam in the sea, which was cool and pleasant. I saw sailing boats in the distance and fishermen busy with their catch. Then we sat on the beach and...
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...A day at beach Everyone has a place where they go to escape all the pressures and worries of life. There is always that one spot that can soothe all your problems and troubles in times of stress. For me, the beach is the ultimate cure to all of my problems. While I am there, all of my obligations are suddenly erased. The day was warm and muggy; it was the perfect weather to go to the beach. The water was clear and a rich deep blue in color. Not a patch of seaweed in sight. The fine white sand is burning your feet as you hear the sound of the waves crashing and the cool sea breeze brushing by. I take a deep breath of fresh air and look at the surrounding of people soaking in the sun waiting to get in the water. I slapped on the sunscreen and packed up my gear and ran towards the water, little kids were building sandcastles and having sand fights. I dogged through them and at last I was running through the shallows of the water getting nearer to the in coming wave. I dove straight through the dumping wave, the cool water rushing down my body. I popped back up to the surface, relived that I was finally out of the warm weather and cooled off by the beautiful seawater. Later, my friends decided to join me and we played volleyball in the sand. Everyone brought snacks and later that night we also had a barbeque. After a while, we swam in the sea, which was cool and pleasant. I saw sailing boats in the distance and fishermen busy with their catch. Then we sat on the beach and...
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... SUZIE ELLER | "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit." Jeremiah 17:7-8 (ESV) We walked into the doctor's office fully expecting good news. We walked out carrying a slew of pamphlets and news that we didn't see coming. Cancer is a place we've been through before as a couple. Except back then it was me, and now it's him. In the hours after his diagnosis, we attended a sweet birthday celebration for a grandchild. We danced under the stars at a family wedding. When the busy weekend finally passed, I sat in the living room with my Bible in front of me. Sun streamed in through windows as I grieved. Lord, I don't want to do this again. I glanced at my open Bible and read the Scripture verse in Jeremiah I'd committed to memory the week before: "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit." As I memorized it, I had pictured a tall tree, its leafy branches hovering over the water, roots reaching for nourishment. The tree was laden with fruit, though everything else around it was burned and dry...
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...Water Resources - Overfishing Science 275 3/2/10 Kenneth Whitehall Water Resources - Overfishing In recent decades the method and technologies involved in commercial fishing has advanced tremendously. With a limited time in the fishing seasons, fisheries are forced to catch as many fish as they can as fast as they can. This, along with the growing population of people and their appetites for fish, is causing a major problem with overfishing. Overfishing is the process of catching fish faster then they can reproduce. It is fishing that unsustainably depletes fish stocks or that damages the ocean environment. Overfishing is causing irreversible negative effects within the ocean waters of the earth. Every living thing plays its part in the entire food chain from the smallest of organisms to the largest of animal. From the bottom of the food chain to the top all species are both predator and prey. Every living thing is connected in some fashion and relies on each other to complete the circle of life. When a part of this circle is either in shortage or is missing altogether, there is a break in the chain and everything pays the price in the end. Overfishing has become a major problem in recent decades. The damage that overfishing has already caused in the oceans is still often a surprise to environmental experts. Globally, 90% of large fish are already gone (Festa, Regas, & Boomhower, 2008). As the fishing stocks slowly disappear, commercial fisheries are starting...
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...The culture I researched was American Indian, more specifically, The Mohawk Indian from the Cornell Valley. I discovered that they see the American culture as very different of their own, a culture that violated theirs. The Mohawk believe that America was born from a bird falling from the sky, dived deep down into the ocean, and pulled the plug out of a deep pool or water causing the water to escape. As the water receded, it exposed a land in a similar shape as a turtle. Since then, the Mohawk referred to America as Turtle Island. They put this turtle on their totems to pay their respects to the memory of the bird who discovered the American land. The Mohawk payed homage to all of the things they were blessed with, from the rain, their food, shelter, health, and the history of their heritage left by their ancestors....
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...provide many years of trouble-free service, but a neglected hot tub could fail in just a few years. Hot tub repairs can be rather expensive, but you can avoid many of those costs with a simple maintenance routine. Checking the water chemistry in your hot tub once a month and every time you add water is perhaps the best way to ensure trouble-free operation. Here are some additional maintenance tips to keep your hot tub running like new. Check the pH at least once a month. Low pH can cause a number of problems for hot tub owners, including costly issues like heater failure. Allowing the pH...
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...from the busy marketplace. The warm rays fall across the face of a young girl; her hair is a frizzy mess from the humidity and her face a deep bronze from her constant sun exposure. Her eyes flutter awake just as the daily azan begins for the first prayer, Fajr. Quickly she tiptoes from her bed to her suitcase, trying to not disturb her four cousins and sister who share the bedroom with her because it offers the only air conditioning in the house. Her mother and aunt are already dressed and chatting in the kitchen, her aunt more likely than not arguing with her cook over the lack of spice in her sallan. She walks across the wood floors until she arrives at the bathroom. She enters it only to find it is occupied by one of the house servants dusting the floors. The girl looks to be several years younger than her and wears a light blue salwar kameez. Apologetically, she gathers her things and leaves the room. The young girl stares at her retreating figure, surprise clearly upon her face. She has not yet grown accustomed to the servants who tread softly about the house, doing laundry and making beds. It always leaves a feeling of guilt and remorse in the pits of her stomach. She shuts the door and goes to the protruding faucet next to which is a large container which she fills with water. There is only one temperature; cold. The cold water is comforting in the blistering heat that is beginning to set in already. After her shower, she dresses in her favorite set of salwar kameez;...
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...What does your marketing technology ecosystem look like? With the help of special fermented manure minerals and herbs are added to help restore and harmonize the life of the soil to enhance and give nutrition quality and savor to the food being raised on the biodynamic farm. Biodynamics triangle often consists of three major points which they start off with the ecological point of view, social standpoint is second and economic stability standpoint is lost. One of their main objectives is a community supported by agribusiness. Other groups like the deep ecology movement have their own vantage point of how we require to exist or coexist with mother nature. One key part of biodynamic farming is oxygen. “In agriculture, we’re in trouble when the dirt doesn’t get enough oxygen. Even with crops like rice oxygen must diffuse into the water and the soil even while the field is soaked. However oxygen deficiency usually goes unrecognized” (Lovel, H. (n.d.). Oxygen The Activator. Retrieved April 30, 2015,) The key ingredient is oxygen, oxidizing the land restores nutrients which allows for the soil to become even more fruitful. Having a better soil create better crops better tasting food better animals everything becomes...
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...Mars, also known as the “Red Planet”, is Earth’s closest neighbor, which is 225 million kilometers away. A trip to Mars would take 4-6 months. If a trip to Mars is successful as planned, the human would face many different challenges, and troubles. A number of troubles include that they would have to wear a full body suit because Mars's atmosphere is too thin, nevertheless humans would also face the possibility of running low on supplies, while it is possible to grow food with the soil on Mars (desolate) plants would have to be grown inside greenhouses. Consequently water will be a massive problem because of our feeble primitive bodies, we cannot, and will not survive without water running through our bodies. The movie Martian contains many...
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...help guide them including: A. their sense of smell B. cloud formations C. the appearance of more birds D. the direction of waves E. all of the above Question 2 The scientific theory about the formation of the oceans is that they first formed from (the original source of the water): A. Magma displacements. B. comet impacts C. degassing of the early Earth D. all of the above E. both b and c Question 3 Besides the Navy the primary organizations who carry out “classified” A. The U.N. B. Green Peace C. Sierra Club D. Oil companies. E. Boeing F. the banking industry Question 4 One use today of the Navy’s SOSUS System is to monitor________ to prevent loss of life. A. dumping of waste in the oceans B. tsunamis C. fish populations D. oil drilling E. tidal cycles F. surfing championships Question 5 The two types of technology that are mostly used to monitor deep-water oil drilling and to locate and recover deep shipwrecks are: A. AUV’s and compasses B. ROV’s and Side-scan sonar C. GPS and radar D. Chronometers and sextants E. B.P. stock price forecasts and FEMA bureaucrats. Question 6 The reason that ancient sailors had trouble calculating their LONGITUDE is that they did not have reliable A. sextants B. astrolabes C. clocks D. compasses E. all of the above Question 7 Our Sun is but one of billions of stars in the ________ galaxy. A. Andromeda B. Milky Way C. Almond Joy D. Nebular E. Ursa...
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...Back in the late 1880’s and early 1900’s there was a lost teenage girl roaming Charlotte, Iowa. The girl had no home to go to because her house was burned down four years earlier and in that house her parents lay all because the girl would not help them. She locked their bedroom door so they could not get out. The only things that she saved from the fire were cloths, her baby sister, and baby brother. She took her siblings to Charlotte, Iowa where she found Hickory Hill Cemetery. There at the cemetery she would find an old gardener's shack back in the woods where nobody would see her and her siblings. Her siblings did not live very long in the cemetery because the girl smashed their heads in with a broken tombstone because she could not take...
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...Shoreline depletion by erosion is a natural process that occurs due to a variety of reasons. Shores can be devastated due to short-term events such as storms, wave action, or tides and winds. Shorelines can also be affected by large scale events such as glacier or orogeny cycles that alter sea levels. Tectonic movements also cause coastal land to be depleted or increased. These processes are natural, and the rise and fall of coastlines is just another part of nature, but human activity has drastically depleted shorelines worldwide. Beaches are becoming smaller and smaller, and cities are spending millions of dollars a year on replacing the sand alone (Prasetya). There are many things that humans are doing to devastate the coastlines. Along the coast, activities such as land reclamation, port development, shrimp farming, and construction are leading causes in coastal depletion. Within river catchments and watersheds, activities such as river damming and diversion affect the coast. Offshore events affect beaches as well. Dredging and sand mining are just a few examples of harmful offshore processes. Each of these things, combined with natural forces, put the coasts in dire need(Coastal Managment). It jeopardizes coastal cities and environments’ health. People normally flock to coastal areas to inhabit, and developers now have to deal with the problems of erosion. A strong push has been made by the administration in the areas affected to manage the coastal problems and restore...
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...Then fill in the answer on your answer document. In Emory’s Gift, Charlie is a 13-year-old boy just out of seventh grade. His mother’s death and his father’s grief leave Charlie feeling isolated at school, at home, and even at the junior-lifesaving training class he attends, where he practices his lifesaving skills on seventh-graders, otherwise known as sevies. In the excerpt below, Charlie has returned home after class and has walked to the creek to go fishing. from Emory’s Gift by W. Bruce Cameron 1 During the spring the waters of the creek were dark and cold, a sharp contrast from the milky pool water from which I’d been saving sevies all morning. From bank to bank the stream was more than thirty feet. In the summer, though, with the runoff down to a trickle, the creek bed was mainly dry, littered with rocks and mud and tree branches. The creek itself shrank back until it was only six feet wide, hugging the far bank and deep enough to swim in. That’s where the fish liked to lurk, up under the tree root overhang. From the base of our hill the creek had only another couple hundred yards of independence before it joined the river, adding strength to the flow to town. 2 I started casting along the banks of the opposing shore, and it wasn’t long before I’d hooked and pulled in a nice little brook trout. I put it in the creel, thinking that a couple more just like it and we’d skip the hamburgers that evening. 3 A few minutes later I had another...
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..."inner space," that quiet place I can go to rest, dream, and energize. I can go there through meditation, reading poetry, listening to music, or just sitting quietly observing nature, and many times through dreaming. I have approached the exploration of the opposites “inner/outer” by answering the call of nature. I have intuitively been investigating the “inner” energy for a few months without being aware of it. I started to recognize it when pulling recent artwork discovered that I have been working with water, the ocean, and mountains. These elements were very much present in most of them. With the vast open space represented by these places at first I misread the inner as the outer and was confused for a while not feeling where to go with it now. The “outer self” was not manifesting, then I seem to feel the ocean waves inside of me getting to the realization that the energy calling was from my inner self in a sacred space near my heart. Both, mountains and ocean bring deep feelings of joy, nostalgia, and sadness at the same time. There is a lot that resonates and a lot to be said about how in the present I embrace the inner energy instead of being afraid of it. In the past I had nightmares of being drown and desperately wanting to scape huge waves trying to suck me or my children...
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