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By 1899 The Carnegie Steel Company dominated the American Steel Industry, with the steel came the expansion of the railroad: at the forefront was Cornelius Vanderbilt whose main goal eventually became to monopolize the railroad system. Soon after came the rise of John D. Rockefeller Jr., whose fortune was beginning to grow with the creation of an oil refinery. It was the agreement that Rockefeller would fill Vanderbilt's trains with oil that required him to monopolize the petroleum industry, but…

The two media sources i picked are Smithsonian Magazine and National Geographic. And the disaster i'm doing is “Gates of Hell”. This disaster occurred in 1971.What happened to make this catastrophe. Well, one day in 1971, a group of soviet geologist went looking for an oil field. During the search they thought they found an oil field, so they began to drill. But little did they know they were drilling on a cavernous pocket of natural gas that couldn't support the weight of the drill. The gases…

He drove across the country and interviewed different individuals about their situation and how natural gas drilling has affected them. He used different visuals to keep the audience’s attention and explain his points more thoroughly. Fox did very well presenting his case because of this. Also, he brought up many…

There have been recent complaints from North Dakota residents that there is a “black snake” forcing itself onto their private land. I thought that this was America! First of all, no need to have private land, this country was built on the values of sharing. Just look at the first Thanksgiving! Such a wonderous turnout don’t you think? Anyways, enough of the history we know and love so dearly. Let’s get back to the trivial topic of the Native Americans not wanting to allow the good-intentioned…

drill sites. While there is risk involved with drilling for oil and natural gas, it is unclear and not enough research has been done to prove without a doubt that hydraulic fracturing is at fault. There have been samples taken from drinking-water wells of residents that live within one kilometer of fracking sites that show that…

Earthquakes have now been reported in states that rarely, if ever, get earthquakes ever since fracking has been doing water injections. Water injections consist of putting the wastewater from fracking into an empty water well and leaving it there. There have been studies after studies showing that earthquakes, and unusually large ones, were suddenly occurring in low to minimal seismic activity states. In an article by Newsweek Global called “The Earth Moved, And It’s Our Fault” says, “But in…

The BBC stated in the article What is fracking and why is it controversial? that “Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock. Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside.” To be more specific, oil companies drill into the earth to extract gas from rocks using a high pressure water mixture. The water mixture includes gallons of water, sand, and…

Although there have been found sites where biological methane is present in wells such as several regions in Pennsylvania and New York. That was why companies held their ground saying fracking has no connections with methane in surrounding water aquifers. That all changed after scientists discovered that the methane in water wells near natural gas wells was old and therefore, the cause of Hydraulic Fracturing. (Biello, 2011) New York is one of the states…

needs water to live and grow. Unfortunately the ocean contains more than 97 percent of all the water on Earth which is undrinkable due to the high levels of salt. With the Earth’s population increasing the level of pollution in the water is raised as well, and if people do not start taking care of the little fresh water that we have then the water will not continue to support the entire human race. One example of companies not caring enough about the environment was the huge BP oil spill in…

The Nobbys lighthouse designed by Alexander Dawson was first lit in 1858 because of the prominent position at the entrance of the port and the crucial use of navigation. Nobbys light is also the third lighthouse constructed in NSW after the Macquarie light in 1818 and in the same year with the Hornby lighthouse. Before the establishment of the present lighthouse (1854), the first beacon was lit on this area (Signal Hill) in 1804 with a range of merely 7 kilometres. Later in 1821, an oil burning…