Unconventional oil

Hydraulic fracturing, also known simply as fracking, is a process used to extract natural gas and oil from beneath the earth’s surface. This process is accomplished by drilling a well and pumping pressurized water, proppants such as sand, and chemicals into that well; the result of this process is that fractures occur within the targeted layer of shale rock, which allow for extraction of the desired gas and oil (Hyder and Lerner 2250). As a cleaner burning fuel, natural gas continues to be an…

The artworks I have chosen to discuss grabbed my attention through visual and emotions more than any other pieces of artwork. I want to compare and contrast the works of Gioia Fonda, because of the skill and patience needed to emplace art inside of the jars. Each artwork was created in 2017 and displayed at the Shasta College Art Gallery. Mt. Foolery captures the eye by gold flakes setting the ground floor with browns and black to show the mountains rising from the earth. The mountains made…

Obama’s Spill on Green Energy Eleven lives were lost; wildlife was coated in the millions of gallons of thick, black oil that was suspended in the Gulf of Mexico; and the United States wanted answers. Almost 2 months after the BP oil spill on April 20, 2010, President Obama addressed the United States concerning the disaster, and the country eagerly awaited what their leader would say. Obama’s goal was to tactfully provide information and a solution, for the present and future. As a televised…

scenes. Pieter was born in 1525 in the Netherlands and died in 1569 in Brussels, Belgium (Pieter Bruegel, the Elder). This painting was created in c.1562 – c.1563, during Bruegel’s Brussels Period of his own art. The medium used for this creation was oil on panel, and it is currently being displayed at Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. Other notable works of his include The Hunters in the Snow, Netherlandish Proverbs, and The Peasant Wedding. This painting portrays a harrowing picture, abundant…

Main Concept The Progressive Era saw several acts of legislation that would change the way American society operated. Sherman-Anti Trust Act In 1890 big business controlled much of the American economy. The Sherman Act allowed the United States government for the first time to investigate a business. The government would look for "artificial raising of prices," or, a monopoly. Any company who was hurting the economy by driving up prices would be broken apart. The government would attempt…

Hydraulic Fracturing for oil and natural gas is possibly one of the most misunderstood parts of drilling around. The term itself is almost as bad for some as racial slanders. Countries have banned the process and even some states such as Colorado have placed embargos on the process until more research is available. Environmental groups storm capitals at the sound of the word demanding more regulations. What many don’t realize is that the oil business has been using the same process for 70 years…

John D. Rockefeller was born on July 8. 1839 in Richford, New York. His father William Avery Rockefeller, was a “pitch man”-- a “doctor” who claimed he could cure cancer and charged up to $25 per “treatment.” His dad was gone from month to month traveling around the West from town to town and would return to wherever the family was living with substantial sums of cash. His mother Eliza Davison Rockefeller, was very religious and disciplined. She raised John to work, save and give to charities.…

Smart was an artist who would turn his back on something beautiful, he painted what was not seen, kind of like death, quite, and loneliness. This painting was painted around more of a quietness. While Peter Booth’s painting was made with, also oil paint but he did not make his as smooth as Jeffery’s art piece he made his art work rougher, he painted this painting showing humanity in a state of darkness, loneliness and isolation while maintaining the possibility of hope. He did this well to show…

In 1657, Johannes Vermeer painted “The Milkmaid”. It is an oil on canvas painting and it on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Vermeer was a Dutch painter who liked to get his ideas from middle class life. He used a lot of monochrome shades of grey, browns, greys, and then he would apply primary colors, reds, blues, and yellows on top, to form a transparent looking painting. He used expensive pigments to illustrate the lighting in the painting, which then helped reflect the many colors he…

Standard Oil Court Case In 1911 the biggest oil industry was being tried for going against the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Sherman Antitrust Act is a law forbidding contract, trust, or conspiracy in limitation of interstate and foreign trade. The case was between Standard Oil of New Jersey and the United States. The United States Supreme Court was the one trying Standard Oil. In the court case the actions of Standard Oil and the owner John Rockefeller were being reviewed. These actions are what…