...The Northern Gateway Pipeline runs from Kitimat, British Columbia to Bruderheim, Alberta transporting bitumen westbound, and condensate eastbound. The pipeline goes through Burns Lake, Bear Lake, Fox Creek, Whitecourt, Morinville, around 50+ indigenous territories, and will run cross over 1,000+ streams and rivers. South of the pipeline, Vanderhoof can be found, along with Mayerthorpe, and Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta. North of the pipeline, many more municipalities can be found, including; Terrace, Houston, Fort St. James, and Bon Accord. At the end of the pipeline near Kitimat, British Columbia, the Great Bear sea can be found. Most of the pipeline is away from major populations. Place- During the winter, the east side of the pipeline...
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...Section I: Opening Statement “Petroleum production and use is fundamental to our current way of life” (Environment Canada, 2011) We will be arguing in favour of British Columbia supporting the construction of the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Throughout our brief, we will provide several arguments reinforcing our position. In addition to the questions provided by the Hearing Panel, we found it extremely important and pertinent to address economic implications of the construction and functioning of the pipeline. For this reason, these elements will be discussed in Section IV of our brief. We chose to omit a couple of Questions of Analysis in favour of expanding on others that we felt were more relevant and necessary to our argument. We hold the belief that the potential benefits of the Northern Gateway Pipeline outweigh the potential costs; reasons for which will become evident in this written submission. Section II: Questions of Fact: Answered 1. Will the pipeline be running above or below ground? The vast majority of the pipeline will be buried up to a meter underground. The only exceptions will be select water crossings where it is safer to run the pipeline above the water crossing. (Enbridge Northern Gateway Project, 2013) 2. What is the lifespan of the project? The project will have a lifespan of 30 years (Enbridge Northern Gateway Project). 3. What is being transported in the pipeline? There are 2 pipelines. One is the oil pipeline and the other is the condensate...
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...pipeline that will transport natural resources from Alberta to Gulf coast refineries. The pipeline is heavily opposed by the Natural Resources Defense Council [24], mainly arguing the pipeline will have negative long term economic and environmental impacts. One of the areas the pipeline will pose a threat to is the Ogallala Aquifer [10]. The Ogallala Aquifer is a shallow water table beneath the Great Plains of the United States. It provides about 30% of the ground water used to irrigation in the United States. If the Keystone XL pipeline is built, there is the risk of an oil spill, which would contaminate the Ogallala Aquifer. Another proposed pipeline is the Northern Gateway pipeline [32], which will stretch from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat, British Columbia. The eastbound pipeline will transport natural gas condesate, while the westbound pipeline will transport diluted bitumen [22]. The pipeline is heavily opposed by the B.C. First Nations communities [33] located in the potential path of the pipeline. There have been numerous formal declarations against the intrusion of a pipeline into aboriginal land, including the Yinka Dene Alliance, the Heilksuk Nation, and the Coastal First Nations. Many first nations communities in the Canadian oil sand...
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...$500 $500 $100 $100 $50 $50 $10 $10 $5 $5 U.S. scientists are warning that there are environmental risks, regulatory holes and serious unknowns regarding the shipment of Alberta oilsands products by pipeline, rail and tanker. The findings are in a 153-page report from last September by the emergency response division of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The unit has expertise in preparing for, evaluating and responding to oil and chemical spills in coastal environments. Enbridge, the company behind the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline to the British Columbia coast, counters that most of the concerns raised in the report are out-of-date, overstated or being resolved. The study examined the different ways to transport Alberta's bitumen, a molasses-like crude oil, over U.S. land and water. Those included rail, the proposed Kinder-Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline to Vancouver, the Keystone XL line to Texas from Alberta, and Northern Gateway. * Supreme Court refuses First Nation's appeal over oilsands expansion * Prominent Canadians support Neil Young's anti-oilsands campaign * Neil Young concert tour surpasses anti-oilsands fund goal "Most oilsands products are transported to market via existing and proposed pipelines; however, a sharp increase in the use of rail and marine transport can be expected while new pipelines are constructed to match the increased production of oilsands products," the report says. It was written by six experts...
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...1993 Operating Cost of Aluminum plants worldwide (contains no depreciation or other charge for capital) ($/ton except where noted) Smelter Country Company Capacity (tpy) Electricity usage (kWh/t) Electricity price ($/kWh) Electricity cost ($/ton): Alumina usage (t/t Al) Alumina price ($/t Alumina) Alumina cost ($/ton): Other raw materials ($/ton) Plant power and fuel ($/ton) Consumables ($/ton) Maintenance ($/ton) Labor ($/ton) Freight ($/ton) General and administrative ($/ton) Marginal cost Total Cost (excl. Depr.) capacity marginal cost 2500.00 2000.00 1500.00 1000.00 500.00 0.00 0 5000 1 Zaporozhye Ukraine CIS 100 17 454 0,008 136,45 1,94 146,58 283,78 58,28 4,04 67,31 32,57 17,27 48,86 72,16 527,37 2 Sumgait Azerbaijan CIS 60 18 271 0,006 113,08 1,94 150,92 292,19 64,01 0,72 88,51 32,57 10,91 65,15 67,80 545,33 3 Sorocaba A Brazil Other 122 15 769 0,005 85,61 1,94 111,83 216,51 156,19 6,51 79,28 30,13 150,40 43,43 57,66 652,15 4 Sayansk Russia CIS 323 15 897 0,007 117,38 1,95 206,30 402,28 49,37 5,25 61,36 44,79 13,97 70,58 69,07 653,57 Zaporozhye Ukraine CIS 100 Sumgait Azerbaijan CIS 160 Sorocaba A Brazil Other 282 Sayansk Russia CIS 605 527,37 545,33 652,15 653,57 marginal cost marginal cost 10000 15000 20000 25000 5 Nadvoitsy Russia CIS 60 18 154 0,008 145,86 1,95 190,01 370,52 63,64 5,99 91,75 48,86 21,93 70,58 62,17 672,53 6 Irkutsk Russia CIS 260 18 974 0,006 113,31 1,95 206...
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...Business Environment 1 Final Essay 2014 – 2015 Section 1: PEST Analysis Technique * Section 1.1 Social environment is the sign of the human spirit civilization and material civilization’s development. On the basis of the natural environment, through long-term conscious social labor, human beings have been processing and transforming the natural material and then social environment was formed. Social environment as one of the external environment factors has a great influence on business. With lasting changes in social environment that will cause demand of human beings for new products. (Haider, 2010) As a result, social environment will give marketing a new guidance. And demographic and cultural will be included as two main factors in social environment. Demographic is to gather people in groups that share with same common criteria. Because of the variables of demographic, demographic is divided in many parts. Such as age, gender, income, race, religion. (Naik, 2013) Cultural is the values and ideologies of a particular group of individuals. And it consists of languages, regions, habits, arts and so on. (Zimmermann, 2015) Besides, both demographic and cultural have direct link with marketing. Demographic will direct determine the potential capacity of the market. What’s more, the structure of population age and the level of education will have profound influence on market structure. Due to different cultural will cause different consumption concept, so cultural will affect...
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...BUSINESS PROFFESIONALETHICS COMM 332 Individual Assignment Discuss in your paper the three companies you researched and describe briefly their ethical dilemmas. Then compare the issues that they faced using the discussions, theories and relative case studies from the course. Discuss in your opinion how they could have avoided their ethical dilemma. Illiès Boussaha Student number: 230106913 Due Date: November 7, 2012 Word count: 2057 Maple Leaf Food is a Canadian food processing company that is located in Canada, the U.S, U.K and Asia. Its 100 facilities operates in the food and beverage sector, hiring 23.500 employees around the globe, of whom 1.100 temporary foreign workers. The company was created in 1963 and was originally named Canada Bread Company, Limited. It was, and still is the largest food processor of the country. A few years later, McCain Capital Corporation and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board acquired most of the shares. They are still the main shareholders today. Moreover, the company acquired Olivieri™ Fresh Pasta and Sauces in 1988 and merged with Canada Packers Inc. In 1991. The company bought Canada's largest rendering company, Rothsay, the services provided by Rothsay are linked to environmental sustainability (collecting, processing and recycling animal products). Therefore, Maple Leaf Food seems to be environmentally friendly and thus has accomplished...
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...INDEPTH: OIL The price of oil - in context CBC News Online | April 18, 2006 Oil is sold in barrels - it's the same unit of measure used to sell whisky. A barrel of oil - or whisky - contains 159 litres. The price of a barrel of oil has been testing new highs since it pushed through $50 a barrel in September 2004 - and pushed gasoline prices well beyond $1 a litre in the summer of 2005. But how high are prices like that, historically speaking? Turns out these records may not be records, after all. Oil prices were stable for most of the 100 years before 1973 at well under $5 a barrel. Expressed in today's dollars (all figures in U.S. dollars), the price was closer to $10 a barrel, hitting highs of about $15 and lows close to $8. Even as the world economy boomed in the decades following the Second World War, prices remained fairly stable. That's mainly because the United States held most of the clout in the oil industry - and the U.S. government regulated the price of oil. From 1958 to 1970, prices were stable at about $3 per barrel, but in real terms the price of crude oil declined from above $15 to below $12 per barrel. The decline in the price of crude when adjusted for inflation was further exacerbated in 1971 and 1972 by the weakness of the U.S. dollar. But by the early 1970s, that changed. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had become a force and in 1973, the first major oil shock hit the world as Arab nations refused to sell to countries that...
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...ASSESSING METHANOL PRODUCTION IN CHINA FOR METHANEX by Gabriel Wong Bachelor in Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, 2000 PROJECT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION In the Faculty of Business Administration © Gabriel Wong, 2010 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Summer 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by photocopy or other means, without permission of the author. APPROVAL Name: Gabriel Wong Degree: Master of Business Administration Title of Project: Assessing Methanol Production in China for Methanex Supervisory Committee: __________________________________________ Dr. Pek-Hooi Soh Senior Supervisor Assistant Professor __________________________________________ Dr. Aidan Vining Second Reader CNABS Professor of Business and Government Relations Date Approved: __________________________________________ i ABSTRACT Methanex is the world leader in methanol production and marketing. China is an important market; by 2014 it is forecasted to account for 50% of global demand. The purpose of this project is to determine whether Methanex should invest in methanol production in China. The project approach uses a multi-goal analysis focusing on three goals: (1) Consistent with Corporate Vision, (2) Sustainment of Existing Competitive Advantages, and (3) Profitability. Based on the analysis, the...
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...Jeff Abbott Director of Operations Exel Americas 1400 Church Street South Pickering ON L1W 4C1 Phone: 905-428-9947 x200 Fax: 905-428-8252 E-mail: Marlene Adams Director of Purchasing Baffinland Iron Mines Corporations #1016 - 120 Adelaide Street West Toronto ON M5H 1T1 Phone: 416-814-3888 Fax: 416-364-0193 E-mail: Jason Adlam Director, Sales and Customer Service CHEP Canada Inc. 7400 East Danbro Crescent Mississauga ON L5N 8C6 Phone: 905-789-4213 Fax: 905-789-4279 E-mail: Stephen Aikman Sr. Manager, Client Strategy RBC Royal Bank 320 Front Street West, 4th Floor Toronto ON M5V 3B6 Phone: Fax: E-mail: Thomas Aldred General Manager Schenker Logistics Inc. 1920 Albion Road Rexdale ON M9W 5T2 Phone: 416-798-8070 x235 Fax: 416-798-4416 E-mail: Desmond Ali Warehouse Manager USANA, Canada Co. 1 & 2 - 361 Rowntree Dairy Road Woodbridge ON L4L 8H1 Phone: 905-264-7549 Fax: 905-264-9873 E-mail: Sabina Ali Customs & Traffic Manager Conair Consumer Products, Inc. 100 Conair Parkway Woodbridge ON L4H 0L2 Phone: 905-265-4533 Fax: 905-265-4595 E-mail: Anthony Allwood President Systems Logic 4 - 62 Plant Farm Blvd. Brantford ON N3S 7W3 Phone: 519-758-5426 Fax: E-mail: Jay Amer VP, Business Development OEEDC - Greater Peterborough 210 Wolfe Street Peterborough ON K9J 2K9 Phone: 705-743-0777 x2125 Fax: 705-743-3093 E-mail: Jill Anderson Senior Managing Consultant IBM Canada 127 Wimbleton Road Etobicoke ON M9A 3S4 Phone:...
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