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HINKLEY, CARLIFORNIA NEWS FORUM 01 August 1993 WATER CONTAMINATION IN HINKLEY I am Erin Brokovich; I am a twice-divorced mother of three young children aged between 9 months to 8 years old. I believe the $28 billion company Pacific Gas and Electric has poisoned the water supply of Hinkley, California with hexavalent chromium. In 18 months, I hope with the help of 634 plaintiffs and Masry law firm to sue PG&E for 333 million dollars for the water contamination in Hinkley. PG&E is a $28…

Fracking is a process that causes protest in states around the country, though it has positive and negative effects. A recent advancement in technology has created an increase in oil and gas production. It also caused an increase in the runoff and release of chemicals into the air and water. This generated a notable increase in the popularity of wells across several cities and towns. Hazardous chemicals used in the process of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling is prompting resources…

When creating a sustainable solutions vision, we need to keep in mind that the visioning has to be sustainable, coherent, tangible, plausible, motivational and capable of achieving a good complexity-capacity balance. a) Sustainable vision – My vision is to BAN Fracking all together. Fracking contaminates underground water and also quite significantly contributes to global warming. In order for these potential dangers to be mitigated, fracking must be banned. It might sound radical but no…

Squidy was a little “squid” in a 2 liter bottle that floated at the top, and when you squeezed the bottle, Squidy sank to the bottom. Then, when you released the bottle, Squidy would float back up to the top. Squidy used some of the gas laws and principles we learned in class such as: Boyle’s law, Pascal’s law, and Archimedes principle. Pascal's law plays a major role in Squidy. Pascal's law is about applying pressure, and when we applied pressure to the bottle, it forced Squidy to sink. The…

On April 15, 1912, the Titanic sunk, not to be seen again until 1985. The large wreck would leave behind thousands of artifacts waiting to be analyzed and displayed. The opportunities were unparalleled, but technology had a long way to catch up. But underwater archaeology was still relatively new, and legalities of the wreck were undecided. With time though, legal procedures were worked out and technology advanced enough to fully handle the remains of the Titanic. Primarily, underwater…

A marine environmental problem today is hydraulic fracturing. This is a process that is used to release natural gases. This happens by drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure to fracture shale rocks, which in turn lets out the natural gas. One of the major problems with this is when the fracking fluid, contains over six hundred different chemicals. Chemicals such as, Mercury, formaldehyde and lead to name a few. In the America today there are some 500,000 gas wells, but…

At the begining of the film Steve is singled out for advancement by the organization officials. He and Sue offer a larger number of leases at a lower value point than any of the other alternate groups. Steve is great at what he does, however modest, too."Listen, Steve, we're a $9 billion organization. Somebody's recommending you, it's not nice, it's numbers," an organization official tells him after Steve redirects praise. Steve knows the sort of individuals he's talking to. He originated from a…

Conclusion Ultimately, the free trade agreement with the United States has not been good for Canada. Canadians have experienced a range of negative impacts and have been made more vulnerable to many problems due to elements of the agreement. In addition to the fact that Canada’s environmental resources are more vulnerable to damage and pollution, the country has also failed to realize the economic objectives upon which the agreement was based. While Canada has enjoyed some benefits, including…

“It is estimated that the worldwide population of sea otters once numbered between several hundred thousand to over one million before being nearly hunted to extinction by fur traders in the 1700s and 1800s” (Defenders of Wildlife). There are only approximately 106,000 sea otters left. Due to fur trade in the early 1900s, there was once under 2,000 sea otters worldwide. Sea otters can possibly be represented as a poster child for reintroduction yet they still remain on the endangered list. There…

The Upper Big Brach Mine Disaster Massey Energy Corporation is the owner of the Upper Big Branch Mine. On Monday, April 5th, 2012 a huge disaster occurred in one of their mines causing 29 of the employees for Massey Energy to die. Massey played a big role in West Virginia and had a good reputation until people started thinking that a lot of the disasters that were occur was do to the mining. Next Donald Blankenship is accused of conspiracy in the mines and is found out that he was not following…