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    is structure into other areas to gather resources where it is possible (List of Pros and Cons of Hydraulic Fracturing, occupytheory.org). A benefit to using this drilling process is that it allows us to gain access to a greater amount of gases and oil deep within the earth than previously before. And with our ever-advancing technology, this practice will only continue to perform better as it is upgraded with new technology. And with that, we are supplying ourselves with a greater amount of…

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    Imagine walking threw a big city like New York in the middle of the afternoon. You look up and see midnight black smog that is covering the city. How would you feel not being able to see any rays of sunlight? Well, the fact that global warming has been happening for decades isn’t something new. In fact, in some cities around the word air pollution is so bad that most people are unable to walk around without an air pollution mask. Yet with the public focus in the modern world on pollution, ways…

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    of United Arab Emirates (UAE). Throughout the rest of the 1970s, Dubai began to grow considerably as it gained revenue from oil and trading. Dubai is the second largest emirate with an urban area of 3885 sq km and the city is roughly 35 sq km Next, Dubai had relatively small reserves on the build its future mall portion of Dubai's economy is based on oil. Besides that, oil made up 6 percent gross a domestic products in 2006. The Dubai city is small that only 3885 square kilometers. Besides that…

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    the world despite the huge resource from crude oil export. If we consider per capita 35 energy demand as 0.5 KW for Nigeria (1KW in developed countries) , the energy demand for 36 Nigeria would be around 925275 MW {Population of Nigeria as on Aug. 3, 2015 is 185.055 37 million, (WPP, 2015)}. In Nigeria, the power generation is dominated by thermal and 38 hydroelectric power plants with installed capacity of 13,000MW. Natural gas (estimated 39 reserve:182TCF) is preferred to other fossil fuel…

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    Introduction Fossil fuels play a very important role in administering the economy efficiently and enforcing newer developments effectively. Oil & gas, Coal and other mineral resources supports us with most of our energy mix and touch our lives in multiple dimensions. They cater to everything - from domestic uses to manufacturing industries, and from transportation fuel to synthesis of organic and chemical products. India is a country with more than 1.2 billion people accounting for more than 17…

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    The reason for the increase of individuals using food banks are in relations to the drastic increase in food prices and the cost of transporting/shipping the food as well. When food suddenly costs more, those who can least afford it get hit hardest. Sadly foods that have little nutritional value are the least expensive so people on limited incomes will purchase more unhealthy foods than fresh fruits, vegetables and meat. On average, Canadians spend less than ten percent of their income on food.…

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    nature. Non-renewable energy sources have been cited as responsible for environmental degradation. Efforts have been diverted towards embracing more renewable energy sources to combat impacts on the environment. The United States depends heavily on oil, natural gas, and coal for its energy. Fossil fuels draw finite resources that eventually dwindle (non-renewable),…

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    Canada Oil Sands

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    development of the global economy, the world 's demand for oil continues to increase. When conventional oil resources cannot meet the rapid growth of oil demand, people turn their attention to unconventional oil resources, which is an important source of oil sands. By the sand, asphalt, mineral, clay and water in five parts of the oil sands is a kind of unconventional oil resources. It is distributed widely, and is rich in resources. At present, the world oil sand technology is known to be about…

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    interest rates had increased, thereby stifling aggregate demand, output and employment. This appears to be a compelling proposition: the decline in financial market measures of inflationary expectations has coincided with a period of sharply falling oil prices. The trouble is that the positive correlation does NOT necessarily imply causality. The FOMC has never really placed excessive faith in financial market measures of inflationary expectations, hence why they also pay attention to…

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    comes to renewable energies there are economical disadvantages. One being the investments made as Ulrike Lehr Lehr (August 2012) states, renewable energy technologies crowds out investment in fossil fuel technologies such as coal fired power plants, oil fired heating systems. This substitution effect leads to profit losses in the respective economic sectors. This connects to the increasing prices of the renewable energy systems in due to its higher demand. In order to get to the benefits that…

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