... 3.0 Pipeline safety and integrity 9 3.1 Risk analysis 10 3.2 Spill preparedness and response 10 4.0 Greenhouse gas emissions 11 4.1 Implications of pipeline expansion 12 4.2 Alternatives and its effects 13 5.0 Conclusion 13 Abstract There is high rate of increase in the world’s demand for energy to run its various development projects. However, the most popular source of the needed energy is oil and petroleum products. To respond to this dire need for energy, Trans Mountain company under the Kinder Morgan Canada has presented a request for approval of its multi-billion dollar expansion. However, their proposal report for approval has drawn mixed reactions from first nations, municipal governments, British Columbia residents and various environmental organizations. A lot of environmental issues have topped the list of the project’s safety complications. Some of these groups have vowed never to support the expansion project citing various loopholes. Kinder Morgan Canada’s oil spills risk assessment both on pipelines and shipping vessels is elaborate. It has considered every concern of various partied and has tried to adjust to the NEB requirements. The NEB has scheduled public hearing on this project for 2015. As the company anxiously awaits the fate of this huge project, there are regulatory requirements and technical analysis that can be done to predict the outcomes of this proposal request for approval. Nonetheless, the Trans Mountain Expansion project is...
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...Investment Opportunity/Kinder Morgan Company Strayer University: FIN 534 Professor: Stevens 1, December 2014 The Investment company that I am recommending is Kinder Morgan. The company is known worldwide for their many different sub companies they have around the world. Kinder Morgan is the largest energy infrastructure company in North America. We own an interest in or operate approximately 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. Our pipelines transport natural gas, refined petroleum products, crude oil, carbon dioxide (CO2) and more. Kinder Morgan In handles a variety of different materials such as gasoline, jet fuel, ethanol, coal, petroleum coke and steel.infrastructure, which bodes well for us. Kinder Morgan provides funds of millions of dollars, and asset's to help ensure a variety of energy products which get delivered to their market place. "As of mid-October 2014, Kinder Morgan had $17.9 billion in expansion and joint venture investments in our backlog which have a high certainty of completion and will drive future growth at the company across all of our business segments.In most of our businesses operations like road and receive a fee for our services, generally avoiding commodity price risk. For example, over 82 percent of our cash flows are fee-based and 94 percent are fee-based or hedged for 2014. Customers include major oil companies, energy producers and shippers,distribution companies and businesses across many industries" s" Kinder Morgan is committed...
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...2014 When you’re one of the largest pizza companies in the world, with more than 3,000 restaurants, maintaining efficient, cost-effective operations throughout your supply chain is essential to continued success. Even though growth was on the fast track, Louisville, Kentucky-based Papa John’s International, Inc. was still hampered by supply chain inventory, visibility and accuracy challenges that were impacting its businesses. “We were having to use outside storage for inventory that ended up being written off because its shelf life ran out before we could ship it to the restaurants,” says Susan Kinder, director, operations services. “That created a domino effect that caused us to pay too much for everything in the supply chain. But without visibility, we had no way of knowing how those truckload orders were impacting everything else.” The company was also facing what Kinder calls “a perfect storm” of substantial increases in commodity prices, fuel and the minimum wage—three critical elements in the food and restaurant industries. Complicating those challenges were Papa John’s ongoing limited-time consumer offers, which require immediate supply chain responses to temporary spikes in demand. Without adequate performance metrics or a system to provide operational guidance, all of these challenges were being addressed manually with spreadsheets, maps and decisions based on personal experience. “Without the tools to track and optimize supply chain functions, we were leaving...
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...children, especially Jewish children, who were living in these Nazi-occupied countries. Adolf Hitler a German ruler who grew to power in response to Kristallnacht, a committee called The British Jewish Refugee Committee appealed to and asked to provide safe transport and passage for Jewish children to England. From Britain they could then travel to America, Belgium, or Holland, or stay in England. The British Jewish Refugee Committee arranged for the children to live in England with sponsors. The Kindertransportation Association exists Now to help raise awareness of the Kindertransport and also connect survivors and their children to other survivors and their host families.As Hitler's power grew, so did his...
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...emergency response division of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The unit has expertise in preparing for, evaluating and responding to oil and chemical spills in coastal environments. Enbridge, the company behind the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline to the British Columbia coast, counters that most of the concerns raised in the report are out-of-date, overstated or being resolved. The study examined the different ways to transport Alberta's bitumen, a molasses-like crude oil, over U.S. land and water. Those included rail, the proposed Kinder-Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline to Vancouver, the Keystone XL line to Texas from Alberta, and Northern Gateway. * Supreme Court refuses First Nation's appeal over oilsands expansion * Prominent Canadians support Neil Young's anti-oilsands campaign * Neil Young concert tour surpasses anti-oilsands fund goal "Most oilsands products are transported to market via existing and proposed pipelines; however, a sharp increase in the use of rail and marine transport can be expected while new pipelines are constructed to match the increased production of oilsands products," the report says. It was written by six experts at the University of Washington and supervised by Prof. Robert Pavia of the university's School of Marine and Environmental Affairs. "While there are many arguments about the level of risk, no one believes the risk is zero," Pavia told The Canadian Press, adding that he was speaking personally...
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...they additionally chose to constrain individuals from Africa to come here essentially to be oppressed and do the white man's messy work. At the start of this adventure dark individuals were recognized a lesser race basically since the shade of their skin. Obviously this was not accurate, however what decision they had when somebody the greater part of a sudden appears on your territory furnished and requests you run with them. Indeed, after the civil war when the slaves were liberated they were still not treated as equivalents. They pressed on to be isolated from white individuals, they were not permitted to possess property, vote, head off to the same schools as white individuals, or even vote. Allowed the states in the North were much kinder to them than the southern states it took years of battling and honest individuals being killed to get where we are today. There were assemblies as the Ku Klux Klan, otherwise called the KKK assembled parts and began lynching, murdering, and blazing crosses in the yards of dark individuals. It took some solid parts of social order, for example a junior lady named Rosa Parks who one day chose she had at long last had enough. Dark...
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...Race and Your Community John Marker ETH 125 August 22, 2010 Tameka Williams-Bruce Race and Your Community I was born and raised in Pocatello, Idaho, which consisted then, with a population of about 26,131 people within the community during the earlier nineteen fifties. From what I recall during these times, there were 4 ethnic groups which consisted mostly of whites, at five percent, Native American Indians at three percent, African Americans, and one percent Mexican, and Asian Americans. As I grew up and began attending kinder-garden, the only people I knew were our two white neighboring families and their children. I knew what the Indians looked like because they walked past our yard on the way to patronizing at the three bars two blocks away. I just knew they were different in skin tones and black hair and some silver. After two days of kinder-garden there were 4 Indian boys added to our class. Two of the Indian boys sat next to me trying to talk to me, but were rude and were always making noise and disrupting the class. I became close friends with them several weeks later, and we all grew up and graduated together. It wasn’t until half way through the tenth grade that I met our first Chinese, Japanese Americans that transferred from California to Idaho. For me, this was a great awakening as these new students were nothing like I was raised to believe. The Japanese American girl was distant towards all other students and teachers, so I asked my Father if he...
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...Turtle and brings her along on her journey and Turtle was discovered to have been abused and sexually molested. Eventually they make it to Tucson, Arizona, where Taylor meets Mattie, a kind woman who is the owner of an auto-repair shop is Jesus is Lord Used Tires. Taylor meets and becomes great friends with Lou Ann Ruiz, another Kentuckian living in Tucson who was abandoned by her husband and has a baby boy. They meet Estevan and Esperanza, a married couple who fled from Guatemala in order to save the lives of the 17 union members but had to leave their child, who looked like Turtle, behind. Mattie, who has been helping illegal immigrants by providing them shelter, becomes worried about Estevan and Esperanza’s safety, so Taylor decides to transport them to another sanctuary for illegal immigrants in Oklahoma where she’ll also look for Turtle’s relatives and try to legally adopt Turtle. She didn’t find anyone, so in Oklahoma, Estevan and Esperanza pretended to be Turtle’s biological parents and they signed the papers for a legal adoption making Taylor a legal guardian of Turtle. After transporting the couple to a sanctuary, they say goodbye and Taylor, along with her now...
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...Enron Case Study Seven years after the fact, the story of the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of the Enron Corporation continues to capture the imagination of the general public. What really happened with Enron? Outside of those associated with the corporate world, either through business or education, relatively few people seem to have a complete sense of the myriad people, places, and events making up the sixteen years of Enron’s existence as an American energy company. Some argue Enron’s record-breaking bankruptcy and eventual demise was the result of a lack of ethical corporate behavior attributed, more generally, to capitalism’s inability to check the unmitigated growth of corporate greed. Others believe Enron’s collapse can be traced back to questionable accounting practices such as mark-to-market accounting and the utilization of Special Purpose Entities (SPE’s) to hide financial debt. In other instances, people point toward Enron’s mismanagement of risk and overextension of capital resources, coupled with the stark philosophical differences in management that existed between company leaders, as the primary reasons why the company went bankrupt. Yet, despite these various analyses of why things went wrong, the story of Enron’s rise and fall continues to mystify the general public as well as generate continued interest in what actually happened. The broad purpose of this paper is to investigate the Enron scandal from variety perspectives. The paper begins with a narrative...
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...Customize View Search: View: Current Investment Prior Investment Current Subsidiary/Operating Unit Prior Subsidiary/Operating Unit Merged Entity Current Investment Arm Prior Investment Arm Pending Acquisition/Investment Cancelled Acquisition/Investment Group By: Investments Company Name Relationship Type Primary Industry Last Investment Date LTM Total Rev. ($mm) LFQ Total Assets ($mm) LFQ Total Debt ($mm) Period End Date Cuadrilla Resources Holding Limited Pending Acquisition/Investment Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Feb-16-2010 - - - - Website: There is no website for this company Business Description: Cuadrilla Resources Holding Limited operates as an oil and gas exploration and production company. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in the United Kingdom. Investment Coverage: - Relationship with Investor/Parent: Total Investment ($mm): - Expected Exit Date: - Percent Owned (%): - Return on Investment (%): - Controlling Interest: - Investor Notes: - Transactions: Date: Feb-16-2010 Type: Private Placement Size ($mm): 58.00 Status: Announced Eagle Energy, LLC Pending Acquisition/Investment Electric Utilities Dec-21-2009 - - - - Website: www.eagleenergyllc.com Business Description: Eagle Energy, LLC provides alternative energy supply, and electricity and natural gas consulting and aggregation services to commercial, industrial, and governmental entities. The company also offers...
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...Earnings Management Study Oil & Gas Industry Abstract This study mainly focused on the earnings management in oil and gas industry and we used Jones model to detect discretionary accruals in the subject companies. Specifically, we examined three oil and gas sample companies that have been required to restate their financial reports due to the oil reserve overestimation. After running the regression and comparing statistics with other oil and gas companies, we found that the sample companies do revise oil reserves to manipulate the DDA expenses, thus achieving their goals of earnings management. Some recommended auditing guidance to detect such manipulation were given at the end. Introduction/Assumption Earnings management, in accounting, is the act of intentionally influencing the process of financial reporting to obtain some private gain. Earnings management involves the manipulation of company earnings towards a pre-determined target. This target can be motivated by a preference for more stable earnings, in which case management is said to be carrying out income smoothing. Management may also overstate the income for personal interests. Other possible motivations for earnings management include the need to maintain the levels of certain accounting ratios due to debt covenants, boost earnings to beat analyst targets, or intentionally understate the earnings to get rid of the...
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...Danksagung Ich möchte allen danken, die sich in den vergangenen Jahren die Mühe gemacht haben, sich mit meiner Dissertation, mit diesem Text, zu beschäftigen und ihn zu kommentieren. An erster Stelle sind das meine Betreuer am Europäischen Hochschulinstitut in Florenz, Klaus Eder und Friedhelm Neidhardt. Außerdem: Catherine Brice, Colin Crouch, Nora Eisermann, Bernd Giesen, Michaela Krützen, Johannes Lübking, Anne Marijnen, Gesa Marten, Jo Reichertz, Frederic Vandenberghe und Anne Will. Besonders danke ich meinem Bruder David Eisermann, der mir die nötige Zuversicht und liebevolle Unterstützung gegeben hat, die Arbeit abzuschließen. Berlin, im Oktober 2000 Jessica Eisermann Inhalt Danksagung .........................................................................................................5 Abkürzungen......................................................................................................10 Einleitung.......................................................................................................... 13 1 1.1 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 1.1.4 1.2 1.2.1 1.2.2 1.2.3 1.2.4 1.2.5 1.3 1.3.1 1.3.2 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 Das Problem der Mediengewalt........................................................... 21 Die Definition des Problems in der Öffentlichkeit .................................21 Die ordnungsgenerierende Funktion 'unterhaltender' Nachrichten ...22 Das Problem im Zusammenhang mit dem Symbol der Gewalt ........28 Das Problem im Zusammenhang mit dem Medium...
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...How does labeling works in Azerbaijan? If we look around us, we can notice that most of the products we use have icons on them, which we call labels or sustainable certification. This term refers to standards related to some issues like food, social and environmental, and it is taken by companies to show off their quality and performance to some people. This so called “labeling” started in 1980s and 90s when some labels, called “Ecolabels”, were introduced to the world. However, after 90s, the number of these labels has rapidly increased. There are two premises of these sustainable standards. First, they began to appear in the places where legislation was not so powerful, and these places demanded some action. Especially, NGO movements around the world needed these actions that were also supported by the consumer. The most interesting factories like Nike, Levi Strauss and other famous brands helped to create the welfare standards. Second, in order to show the truth about both environmental and organic values of products, which helped to increase the number of labels tremendously. We can show FLO International as an example that gained huge success and sales in the world because of their product. Other example is Forest Stewardship Council’s Standards (FSC) used for many products made from trees. However, there are some problems between consumers and B2B standards that lead many buyers to buy only something with a certain label: for example to buy books with only FSC mark...
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...America's War on Drugs: Policy and Problems In this paper I will evaluate America's War on Drugs. More specifically, I will outline our nation's general drug history and look critically at how Congress has influenced our current ineffective drug policy. Through this analysis I hope to show that drug prohibition policies in the United States, for the most part, have failed. Additionally, I will highlight and evaluate the influences acting on individual legislators' decisions to continue support for these ineffective policies as a more general demonstration of Congress' role in the formation of our nation's drug policy strategy. Finally, I will conclude this analysis by outlining the changes I feel necessary for future progress to be made. Primary among these changes are a general promotion of drug education and the elimination of our current system's many de-legitimating hypocrisies. However, before the specific outcomes of Congressional influence and policy impact can be evaluated it becomes important to first review the general history and current situation of drugs today. Our present drug laws were first enacted at the beginning of the century. At the time, recreational use of narcotics was not a major social issue. The first regulatory legislation was for the purpose of standardizing the manufacturing and purity of pharmaceutical products. Shortly after, the first criminal laws were enacted which addressed opium products and cocaine. Although some states had prohibited...
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...1 Running head: MAYAN CULTURE The Mayan Culture By Lydia Ross 2 MAYAN CULTURE Table of Contents The Mayan Background The Mayan Calendar The Mayan Mathematics The Mayan Architecture Modern Day Mayan The Mayan Prophesy of 2012 References 3 4 6 8 11 12 14 3 MAYAN CULTURE The Mayan Background The Mayan Calendar has been used to predict the end of the world. The reason for this is that the calendar ends on December, 21, 2012. Many scholars and historians have argued that there will be some type of cosmic event signaling the end of the world on December, 21, 2012. Other scholars who oppose this opinion say that it is not the end of the world but the end of an era. They predict not apocalypse but an era of bliss. In this era man will live peacefully with one another without strife. For clarity about the calendar and its intentions, a review of the Mayan people is needed. The Mayan culture came into existence around 300-400 AD. It is believed that it is a culture that is somewhat a derivative of the Olmec civilization. The Olmecs were an ancient Central American Indian tribe. The Maya seemed to appear among the Olmecs and soon took over the entire Yucatan Peninsula of Central America. The Mayan people were known for their sophisticated mathematics 1 as well as for being master builders. Their cities were beautifully built and connected by highways and streets made from tools of wood, ivory and stone. There was also a ball court built 2 in every city...
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