ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION OF OFFSHORE (E&P) WASTE MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA: HOW EFFECTIVE? Ibrahim Sidikat Modupe The University of Sheffield The Environmental Regulation of Offshore Waste management in Nigeria has been documented in an article published by Law Environment And Development [1].Evidence suggest that‚ Director of Petroleum Resources has to adopt measure to ensure the adequate regulation of offshore oil and gas E&P waste management [3] and further evidence suggest that
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Born after seeing the need of government intervention to regulate and enforce federal environmental laws‚ Richard Nixon signed the National environmental policy act on January 1‚ 1970. By the summer of 1970 Nixon submitted Reorganization Plan Number Three to Congress; this plan called for a single entity to govern the NEPA and thus the EPA came to be. The EPA inherited environmental charges that had been given to other agencies like the Department of Health‚ Education‚ and Welfare. The charges included
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Competitive Advance of Nations Taiwan has been ranked 6th in “World Competitiveness Report” published on April 13‚ 2011. Taiwan has an intellectual advantage; in this country about 43.7% of the workforce is higher educated (graduate from college and university everywhere in the world). Taiwan workforce represents about 10 million people‚ accounting for 48% of the total population. Every year 320 thousand students are graduated from college and university‚ which make sufficient workforce supply
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One last key area of research that has appeared in relating self-regulation to video games‚ concerns that of pathological gaming or personal gaming addiction. Pathological gaming is often seen in much the same light as to how pathological gambling is viewed in the DSM‚ in the sense that they are viewed as a set of addictive behaviors (Liau et al.‚ 2015a). This obviously presents a concern for a number of people who play video games‚ or parents who let their children play games‚ in hope that they
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Corporate environmental reporting should be regulated. Discuss Early documents (EC‚ 2001‚ p. 8) describe CSR as: a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. There are some companies which currently publicly disclose their environmental performance information‚ comparable to financial performance information which is mandatory and required by accounting standards around
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Taiwan Taxi’s iCall System: Realizing the Value of GPS-Dispatch Systems 1. Why do you think Comfort Taxi was able to attract 16‚000 taxi drivers and to adopt the GPS-dispatch system within two years‚ whereas Taiwan Taxi managed to recruit only 6‚700 members over a seven-year span? Jun-Ze Hong‚ Taiwan Taxi founder chose iCall‚ the GPS-dispatch system developed by Comfort Taxi to be implemented in Taiwan Taxi because of the following reasons: Taipei and Singapore were deemed similar in terms of geographical
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International Environmental Laws and Regulations Executive Summary This report is concerned with the environmental laws‚ policies and regulations of both home and the international field. Here the policies of Bangladesh government are revealed to some extent to help to understand our stand in case of preservation and conservation of the natural resources as well as the environment. Through statistical help the policies are shown side by side the practical scenario of the country in case of environment
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Vietnam Country Environmental Analysis Draft Concept Paper Background Vietnam’s economy doubled in size during the last decade‚ while its poverty rate was halved. Exports are growing by 20 percent per year‚ and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows by 10 percent per year. Future rapid economic growth (an expected doubling of GDP in the next 10 years) and associated industrialization and urbanization‚ and Government’s huge investments in infrastructure pose significant pressures on the environmental
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gold is then removed from the drainage at the bottom of the heap and is further refined in smelters into pure bars of the precious metal. The major areas of environmental regulation acts are: * Clean Air Act * Clean Water Act * Safe Drinking Water Act * Resource Conservation and Recovery Act * Comprehensive Environmental Response‚ Compensation and Liability Act * Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act * Oil Pollution Act * Pollution Prevention Act
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Introduction Geographic & Climate The island of Taiwan is located 120 kilometers off southeastern coast of Mainland China. Its geographical area coverage is bout 13‚823 square miles. It is surrounded by the East China Sea on its north‚ South China Sea to southeast and Philippine Sea to the east. The shape of the island is similar to a sweet potato‚ therefore they sometimes refers themselves as “Children of the Sweet Potato” The terrain of Taiwan consists mostly of rugged mountains. Taroko National
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