Oil In Troubled Waters

Author : William R. Freudenburg
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791418826
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil in Troubled Waters written by William R. Freudenburg and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-04-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some coastal regions of the United States, such as western Louisiana, offshore oil development has long been welcomed. In others, such as northern California, it has been vehemently opposed. This book explores the reasons behind this paradox, looking at the people, the regions, and the issues in sociological and historical contexts. What has been in very short supply on this issue, as in a growing number of other cases of technological gridlock, is balanced analysis. That is what this book provides. The authors’ case studies, derived from interviews with Louisiana and California residents and from environmental impact statements, demonstrate that easy answers are not the most valid ones. The region that should be considered unusual, they find, is coastal Louisiana, where historical, social, and environmental factors combine to favor the offshore oil industry. But this combination of factors, they argue, is unlikely to be found in other coastal regions of the U.S. in the near future.

Author : Madelyn Klein Anderson
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil in Troubled Waters written by Madelyn Klein Anderson and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how oil seeps into the world's waters, the methods used to clean up such spills, and possible ways to prevent spills of varying size.

Author : William R. Freudenburg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438403313
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil in Troubled Waters written by William R. Freudenburg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-04-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some coastal regions of the United States, such as western Louisiana, offshore oil development has long been welcomed. In others, such as northern California, it has been vehemently opposed. This book explores the reasons behind this paradox, looking at the people, the regions, and the issues in sociological and historical contexts. What has been in very short supply on this issue, as in a growing number of other cases of technological gridlock, is balanced analysis. That is what this book provides. The authors' case studies, derived from interviews with Louisiana and California residents and from environmental impact statements, demonstrate that easy answers are not the most valid ones. The region that should be considered unusual, they find, is coastal Louisiana, where historical, social, and environmental factors combine to favor the offshore oil industry. But this combination of factors, they argue, is unlikely to be found in other coastal regions of the U.S. in the near future.

Author : Bernard Collaery
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522876501
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil Under Troubled Water written by Bernard Collaery and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2018 Bernard Collaery, a former Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory and long-term legal counsel to the government of East Timor, was charged by the Australian Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions with conspiracy to breach the Intelligence Services Act 2001. He was forbidden from talking about the charges against him, but under parliamentary privilege independent MP Andrew Wilkie revealed what has since been described as ‘Australian politics’ biggest scandal’. Five years earlier, after ASIO officers raided Collaery’s home and office, Collaery told journalists that ASIS had been bugging the East Timorese government during negotiations over Timor Sea oil. He was about to represent East Timor; as well as calling the evidence of a former senior ASIS agent known publicly only as Witness K, at The Hague in a case against the Australian government. Oil Under Troubled Water relates the sordid history of Australian government dealings with East Timor, and how the actions of both major political parties have enriched Australia and its corporate allies at the expense of its tiny neighbour and wartime ally, one of the poorest nations in the world.

Author : Jim Cairns
Publisher : Camberwell, Australia : Widescope
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil in Troubled Waters written by Jim Cairns and published by Camberwell, Australia : Widescope. This book was released on 1976 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilfred Byford-Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil on Troubled Waters written by Wilfred Byford-Jones and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hovann H. Simonian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857717553
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troubled Waters written by Hovann H. Simonian and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the landlocked backwater between Iran and the Soviet Union, the Caspian has in the last ten years emerged as the epicentre of vast conflicting interests in a region where massive geopolitical issues converge with enormous energy resources and dramatic latent instability. Russia's conflict in Chechnya is a direct by-product of the strategic importance of the Caspian region. _Troubled Waters_ presents a comprehensive analysis of the political and economic dynamics of the Caspian basin. It examines the area's historical evolution and the diverse issues and players in what has become a modern variant of the Great Game' of the nineteenth century. Following a historical overview of the region and its oil industries, the book analyses the domestic politics and the foreign policies of the five states bordering the Caspian- Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. It further identifies all the external interests involved in the Caspian's political rivalries and control over its resources and territory, including the US, the major European powers, various nationalist movements, Islamic militants, multi-national corporations, NGOs and international financial institutions. These features, coupled with the political and economic risk assessment of the Caspian basin which this book provides, makes this a unique contribution to our understanding of a region which is strategically positioned at the territorial juncture of Russia, China, East Asia and the Middle East.

Author : Terrence Winston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781958732403
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troubled Waters written by Terrence Winston and published by . This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My diary while living on and protecting Iraq's Oil Platform in the Persian Gulf, by Terrence R. Winston, a US Navy Veteran.

Author : Terrence R. Winston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781645592310
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TROUBLED WATERS written by Terrence R. Winston and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protecting the most valuable asset worth billions! My diary while living on and protecting Iraq's Oil Platform in the Persian Gulf, by Terrence R. Winston, a US Navy Veteran.

Author : Lansell Taudevin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781449909369
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil in Troubled Waters written by Lansell Taudevin and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When East Timor voted in 1999 to opt for independence from the occupation of Indonesia, its main hope for economic stability lay in accessing a fair share of the oil reserves of the Timor Sea. The island of Timor is separated from the Australian mainland by the same sea.Who would have the right to benefit from that oil? Australia already had oil wells operating on the North West shelf and claimed a maritime boundary that reached hundreds of kilometers across the Timor Sea to the edge of its continental shelf, only a few kilometers from Timor's eastern coastline. Was this fair? Was it 'legal'? This book looks at the complexities of boundaries: maritime, economic and the many other 'terms' beloved of international lawyers. It examines how the laws of the sea affected other nations with narrow (and not so narrow) bodies of water between them, and how disputes were settled, or, in several cases, never settled! Where do you draw the line between two countries? Draw it down the middle, the median or where? Half way? It seems so simple. But it is not.