Associate Level Material Appendix E Water Resource Challenges Review Ch. 10 and 11 of your text, then complete the following: Provide at least three freshwater and three ocean water resource challenges by filling in the following table. Then, respond to the questioupply. n that follows: |Freshwater Resource Challenge |Description | |sewage |Waste water from
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management had poor communication with one another. BP failed in the communication area, by letting the drill crew in on the findings from testing the cement. As a result, the test performed showed that this was not a good solution to hold the barriers. The cement was not of quality, and was not tested properly before they began cementing. The cement was tainted, unstable and insufficient instruments were used to secure the casing of the well. “BP has blamed a sequence of failures including a bad cement
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business to lose its ethical standards. The loss of these standards can cause a trail of destruction caused by a business and cause it to lose a great amount of respect. There are countless examples of destruction caused by businesses like the BP oil spill or IBM supplying technology to Nazi Germany. There are four main reasons why ethical standards for businesses should be instilled. These are (1) to have respect for human dignity, (2) private lives and business lives cannot be separated, (3) ethical
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improvements. Marathon is among the top five crude oil refineries in the United States. It’s an integrated international energy company engaged in exploration and production of oil, sand mining, integrated gas, refining, marketing, and transportation operation. Marathon needs to upgrade a few of their refineries and pipelines in order to increase the production process of heavy crude oils, (marathon.com). For example, once the Detroit Heavy Oil Upgrade Project is completed, the refinery crude
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TNK-BP, also known as Tyumenskaya Neftyanaya Kompaniya, Tyumen Oil Company), used to be a one of the biggest vertically integrated Russian oil company, which had its headquarters in Moscow. It was rated Russia’s third largest oil producer, in addition it was amongst the top 10 largest private oil companies in the whole world. However, it was bought by another Russian oil company known as Rosneft, in 2013. History of TNK-BP It was confirmed by DeGolyer and MacNaughton that since 31 December 2009
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has actually caused a significant environmental problem, which is why I use the words “relatively small”. But the Arctic is different. The area is stunning and within easy reach of the US news media. If a spill did occur, the risks are enormous. Lloyd’s of London put it: “Cleaning up any spill in the Arctic, particularly in ice-covered areas, would present multiple obstacles, which together constitute a unique and hard to manage risk.” When television news shows, the daily papers and well read magazines
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regulations. CN continually improves safety and environmental impact, which leads to better profits in the long run, particularly now that pipelines are becoming politically toxic in the eyes of the public. Recent environmental catastrophes such as the BP oil spill and the recent train explosion in Quebec, means CN must be careful with the public’s recent sensitivity to these types of environmental incidents that affect communities and their members. The company focuses highly on corporate social responsibility
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economy in an array of ways. Some people argue that the cost of nuclear power plants are more expensive to build compared to fossil fuel or gas based plants (Ferguson), which is true, but the costs to fuel a nuclear plant is far less than it is for oil or gas. “The amount of energy obtained from a 1 pound of U235 (uranium-235) is the same as would result from the burning of 200,000 gallons of gasoline or from the burning of 1,500 tons of coal” (Hughes 66). The facts are simple the
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reputation. One such example is the British Petroleum (BP) taking the heat for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Even though this is a catastrophe not only wasting tens of thousands of gallons of oil and millions of dollars, the environment is also under attack from the spill. The surrounding wildlife and ecosystems are now endangered of their existence and contribution to the way the world functions. This was not easy for the oil company to take on but they had no choice than to take
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exploded fifty miles from the coast of Louisiana, killing eleven men and setting off the largest oil disaster in U.S. history. Its impact would reverberate well beyond the Deepwater Horizon and the families of the eleven men who died, and even beyond the people and places of the Gulf of Mexico. Known as the BP spill, this tragedy seemingly was not an isolated incident. According to Juhasz (2011), “BP was not a lone actor; rather, this tragedy was the predictable outcome of an industry that has pushed
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