A Study and Report of your Choice. The Bremer River. 1824-1873 Bremer River: A local studies project. The Brisbane River was discovered quite by accident by ticket of leave convicts, Pamphlet, Finnegan and Parsons, who had set out from Sydney to collect timber. Blown off course by terrible storms the three disoriented men had in fact sailed north. Eventually they reached Moreton Bay where they were cared for by local Aboriginals. Later on in that year while exploring Moreton Bay for possible
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Role of Risk Management in Managing Price volatility in the Global oil and gas market 1.Introduction “Oil is the life blood of civilization. It fuels the vast majority of the world’s mechanized transportation equipment – automobiles, trucks, trains ships, farm equipment, the military, etc. oil is also the primary feedstock for many of the chemicals that are essential to modern life”(Hirsch et al. 2005:2). It can be said that; there cannot be economic growth without oil, therefore oil is
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