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    Why Fracking Is Bad

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    Fracking is starting to become a problem in our country. Fracking is water mixed with chemicals pumped into big rocks at high pressure to get oil out of the ground. Fracking isn't all good fracking can cause earthquakes in the earth because of the holes it makes.it all started in the 1990s whn they figued out they could get oil out of fractured rocks with a easy metad of getting it. Fracking can produce oil for a cheaper price and create jobs but the damages it does to the earth is worse than…

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    The cause of a leak that spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara was of external corrosion in May.The spill occurred after pumps on the Plains All American Pipeline. This is were shut down and restarted, sending a larger volume of oil surging through the 2-foot-wide pipe at higher pressure. This company is known with a history of violations. After the leak, the alarm in the system was sent off and did not shut down for about 30 minutes.State and federal prosecutors are…

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    would say, is what took place at BP. An issue that started off local, but lead to global repercussions, the “BP Oil Spill”, better known as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, began on April 10th, 2010, and lasted until September 19th, 2010, when the well was declared sealed. Over the course of the 5 month summer, 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gallons), were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill was estimated to be 31% larger in volume than the previously…

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    Wells Fargo When speaking of Wells Fargo, there was not just one man who made it, but multiple businessmen in New York. It then made its way in to the west becoming a leading freight and bank company in the West. Wells Fargo was founded by several investors Henry Wells and Williams Fargo, hence the two last names combined, Wells Fargo. They both sought to profit off the huge demand of gold in 1849, so then the company in 1852 starting transporting their first loads of freight between mining…

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    Book Report Good To Great

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    not have extra energy to chase it. I guess this is the reason why there are only a minority of people reaching success. Jim Collins uses professional expertise and vocabularies in stating his views, and personally I think his opinions were well-structured and well-developed. Those examples and quotations that are used in this book brings direct information to the audiences, which personally I believe is a great way to penetrating ideas to audiences. The illustration and tables in each chapter…

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    simply describe the definition of fracking, it is a dangerous process of extracting natural gas from shale rock layers, deep within the earth. Injecting water, sand and chemicals into the rock at a high pressure, it allows the gas to flow out of the well. (Shukman, 2013) How is fracking related our daily life? Fracking contaminates our drinking water, harms our environment and cause deep structural imbalance that may result an increasing rate of natural disasters. Not only should…

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    Wells Fargo Case

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    For more than 160 years, Wells Fargo has been in the risk management business and risk has been very important to its success. They are guided by a statement of risk appetite and are willing to take while operating in a safe and sound manner. The statement of risk consist of seven core principles. First Wells Fargo is focused on relationship. Which means they will take only as much risk necessary to efficiently, effectively and prudently to serve the consumer, small business, commercial and…

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    head of the well. It is worth noting that the working of fracking entails several steps. The first step is on drilling a hole down to the level of gas-rich shale. The drilled well is then given a steel casing to prevent contamination of the nearby waters. The moment the drill reaches the shale layer, it starts to drill at a horizontal dimension for miles. It is at the time in which a perforating gun that is loaded with explosives is charged and lowered to the bottom of the drilled well. The gun…

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    Case Study Wells Fargo

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    On that same hand employee retention consistently remained low for over six years until this past quarter where Wells Fargo saw the lowest level of turnover. This could very well be because of the drastic changes occurring within the company because of the scandal. No longer are employees required to hit unrealistic sales goals or be pitted against one another in order to receive bonuses. Also doing what is truly right by their customer probably feels good after so long of working against the…

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    In this essay, I will be highlighting the negative effects of hydraulic fracking in its role of causing potential damage to the environment and contamination of groundwater. Hydraulic fracking is defined as the injection of liquid fluid at high pressure that extracts oil or gas. In Cart’s article, she denotes how this issue is very problematic because both oppositions have different opinions. For instance, the companies she interviewed disregard the potential damages from fracking and state…

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