English 102 Monday 6pm 2/13/2012 Domestic Oil Drilling: Benefits and Risks. Senator Everett Dirksen once noted “The oilcan is mightier than the sword”. In today’s world‚ it is easy to see why oil can be considered the most important resource to hold. Without oil‚ many of the common day occurrences we take for granted would be impossible. Oil is used for almost everything; from the fuel used to drive our vehicles‚ to the plastics used in every facet of life‚ and providing the heat needed to live
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The Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge is one of America’s last great wilderness areas. It is home to many animals such as polar bears‚ wolves‚ and grizzly bears‚ caribou herds‚ snow geese‚ musk oxen‚ and dozens of other species. If your oil companies keep drilling in the Arctic‚ most of these beautiful creatures will die‚ and some will become extinct. The Coastal Plain is home to these animals. Annually‚ a herd of 129‚000 caribou gather on the Coastal Plain to bear and nurse their young. Polar bears
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Title Name Subject Date Pros and Cons of Natural Gas Drilling Fossil fuel has a high demand in any country. In this century‚ the innovations in the 21st century enable the country to do exploration and invent other drilling technologies. The drilling technologies make it possible for easy accessibility of the reserves that were previously inaccessible. The Marcellus Shale has a lot of natural gas and this has brought development to the developments in the three states. The developments include
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Oil Drilling in Alaska There is believed to be between 5.7 and 16 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil in Alaska. The only thing holding us back from drilling there because it would damage a protected national wildlife refuge in the act killing many animals. The controversy of whether to drill there or not has been going on since around 1977. The last two presidents we had were on different sides of how they felt about the drilling. There are many positives to drilling in Alaska but for every
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every month or so as a result of the scarcity of oil. Some people just shrug the price increase off and cope with it‚ but the economic effect is far greater than it first appears. As the price of oil increases‚ so does the price of all other products that are transported. There is‚ however‚ an opportunity for the United States to increase the supply of available crude oil by drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The idea of drilling in the Arctic has been controversial and to the present
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degradation. An example that sheds light on the conflict between human interests and environmental responsibility is the controversial approval of the oil drilling in the Northern Slope region of Alaska and the drilling that has already began‚ in the Tar Sands of Alberta. In this paper I will firstly explain the situation regarding why the drilling for oil is up for debate to take place. Secondly I will assess the benefits and the irreparable damage that could possibly bring forth devastating effects
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Pros and Cons of using oil I want to talk about advantages and disadvantages of using oil in our world‚ people can use it for different reasons. We use oil for cars‚ airplanes etc. In some countries it is very expensive but in other countries it is much more cheaper because today its harder to find thats why its more expensive and may not be much left. Oil is very useful. For example‚ we can use it as an ingredient for our meal but also it used to accelarate the cars and how we also know doctors
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Offshore Oil and Gas Facilities Predicting revenue stream using complex logistics to meet cost and schedule The Agbami and Greater Plutonio FPSOs are two examples among many that showcase KBR’s project execution from the shallow water of the Niger Delta to the deep waters of West Africa and Brazil. 2 Offshore Oil and Gas Facilities Predicting and Maintaining Revenue Stream Offshore and subsea projects are complex. Risk can occur at anytime‚ anywhere – from politics to public relations
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had a headline about the BP oil spill? Do you think if America would have started converting to another resource such as wind‚ this would’ve still happened? Are oil and oil based products are taking over the economy? Think about everything you used today that uses or is made with oil such as gas‚ plastic‚ ink‚ and tires. Americans consume petroleum products at a rate of three-and-a-half gallons of oil and more than 250 cubic feet of natural gas per day each! However‚ oil brings in 331 billion dollars
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claimed that canola oil can be harmful and unfit to eat is not true and there is no evidence that tell canola oil is bad. More than that‚ health experts also recommended people to consume or use it because it is very low in saturated fat and help lower LDL or bad cholesterol and I hope it really help lower LDL. I think the researchers should conduct more studies to see if canola oil is really unhealthy or not because most of the studies tested by rats. I learned that coconut oil is about 60 percent
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