Essays Tagged: "Natural gas"
Management of the BLM's Public Land System
awide diversity of resources, from timber, and grazing lands found on the surface to a massof oil, natural gas, and minerals laying below the earth. The history of these lands ishardly a dull story, ... resources include recreation, land, timber, minerals,watershed, fish and wildlife, wilderness, and natural, scenic, scientific and cultural values.(BLM 7). Therefor by allowing these old laws to rema ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies
Humanity is the Greatest Failure of Evolution. Strong introduction, weakens as it reachs the end. Includes reference to 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
hours. With current consumption rates (not including an increase in consumption) we will be out of natural gas in 50 years and coal in another half century later. By the year 2025, 15% of the earth's ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Fossil Fueled Cars Are History- paper about the decline of fossil fueled cars.
d Italian cities like Rome and Milan may ban conventional cars altogether. In Tokyo, putting 30,000 natural-gas-powered taxis in the streets has already helped clean up the air. But most of all, carma ... rt, there are always standard cars powered by alternative fuels like propane, ethanol, or liquified natural gas. Also around for decades, these cars have actually begun to catch on. There are 4 millio ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Society, Global Indicators and Technological Change
ing of fossil fuels and the release of nitrous oxides into the atmosphere. Production of coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power each expanded by 1 percent in 1995 (Brown, 16). Globally, the ten warm ... on promoting employment and development, it also increased the unsustainable demands on the earth's natural systems and resources, such as the planet's forests. Applications of technoscience have esta ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Distinctly Canadian
esh water such as rivers and lakes (Canadian Encyclopaedia, 1988).Canada contains great reserves of natural resources, notably timber, petroleum, natural gas, metallic minerals, and fish. The name Can ... r native brothers. This is shown by the number of images Canada has that are related to nature, and natural life. Canada has the most images that are related to nature in all of the world.References19 ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
"How is helium produced"
hat recovering itfrom the air is uneconomical. Helium is produced as a by-product of therefining of natural gas, which is carried out on a commercial scale in theUSA and Poland. In these areas natural ... the only domestic helium producer. In1960, Congress amended the Helium Act to provide incentives to natural gasproducers for stripping natural gas of its helium, for purchase of theseparated helium by ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Management of the Bureao of Land Management's (BLM) Public Land System
awide diversity of resources, from timber, and grazing lands found on the surface to a massof oil, natural gas, and minerals laying below the earth. The history of these lands ishardly a dull story, ... resources include recreation, land, timber, minerals,watershed, fish and wildlife, wilderness, and natural, scenic, scientific and cultural values.(BLM 7). Therefor by allowing these old laws to rema ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Enron Fails
of dollars of money it owes. Enron is an energy trading company that buys and sells electricity and natural gas. It also owns or controls several other companies that deal in several different product ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
"Power of oil"
the Chinese were starting to use oil. Some two thousand years ago the apparently came upon oil and natural gas while drilling for the salt water from which salt would eventually be obtained through e ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies
Structured Finance
led Mahonia, owned by Chase. The net result of these was the following: Chase/Mahonia agreed to buy natural gas for delivery in six months, and pay Enron $350 million upfront. Enron reported this tran ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Report of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969.
l bit. When the tube became stuck, they continued to pull until approximately 10:45 a.m. when loose natural gas 3000 feet below the ocean's surface became dislodged, causing mud and oil to shoot up ou ... m. Five long gashes had been cut into the sea floor, allowing over 200,000 gallons of crude oil and natural gas to pollute the waters in the twelve days that it took workers to control the leaks (1969 ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences
The Great Awakening.
world.oU.S ranges from the Arctic (Alaska) to the Tropics (Hawaii)oU.S is a major producer of oil, natural gas, coal, and other minerals needed in modern industriesoU.S has a relatively low pop. Dens ... a good conductor and a substitute for steel in automobilesoEnergy Resources:1.Coal, petroleum, and natural gas = fossil fuels = non-renewable2.Since 1957, the U.S imports as much crude oil as it prod ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Say no to SE2. This essay is about the Canadian reaction to the proposed SE2 powerplant in Sumas Washington.
land. I realize that SE2 would only be burning the cleanest source of fossil fuels available to us, natural gas, but that still pollutes our air and our water. Why should we care about their energy cr ... he other day another SE2 supporter approached me and told me how unfair it is for us to say no to a natural gas power plant when we ourselves use natural gas for fireplaces and to heat our homes. Many ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
Shell in Nigeria
ell should have environmental, social, and economical responsibilities as they are a steward of the natural resources as well as a corporate citizen.Shell has responsibility for the environmental impa ... t it has created in Nigeria. The people that live on the Ogoni Peninsula have witnessed oil spills, natural gas flaring, and general erosion on the land. The international communities which include th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies
The ENRON Scandal
Founded in the early 1980's when Houston Natural Gas merged with Omaha, Enron rapidly became one of the biggest energy company in the United- ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Pakistan vs. US
salt, chromite, coal, gypsum, limestone, manganese, sulfur, clay, graphite, copper, petroleum, and natural gas, while the United States has many natural resources such as vast areas of fertile land f ... ural resources such as vast areas of fertile land for growing crops, extensive coastlines with many natural harbors, and several large crossable rivers and lakes on which large ships and barges carry ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Why I think Methanol would be the best fuel for the future
there are many reasons for this and i have a listed them below.Methanol is a liquid fuel made from natural gas or reneawable biomass resources it is predoninantly produced by steam reforming of natur ... ls like ethanol which is derived from plant feed stocks.Methanol is currently created by converting natural gas into a liquid fuel.However it may be possible to create methanol from sea weed on off-sh ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
The particular causes of Enron's failure
ts of issues that have to do with the Enron collapse. Enron is a company that was called as Houston Natural Gas and then Enteron. It becomes politically connected player in the new deregulated market ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
The economy, people and land of Nigeria
poken, including Yoruba, Igbo, Fula, Hausa, Edo, Ibibio, Tiv, and English. The country has abundant natural resources, notably large deposits of petroleum and natural gas.The economyThe Nigerian econo ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Why is Dai Williams Involved in the Building of a New Japanese Restaurant in Wales?
s. The demand for coal soon began to decrease drastically. New forms of fuels such as Petroleum and Natural Gas were replacing coal. Dai Williams was left unemployed following the closure of the mine. ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management