breaches of the tailing dams, most recently, failure of the Mount Polley tailings dam in British Columbia in 2014. This has contributed to the publics’ skepticism over management and safety of oil-sands tailing ponds. In an event of tailings dam breach, a huge mass of water and sediments, associated with toxic chemicals will be released, resulting in disastrous environmental and socio-economic impacts. For the particular case of Alberta oil-sands, PI’s recent study of hypothetical tailing-breaches showed
exposed, if they are using tailing ponds for drinking or swimming. Only few hundred birds are killed from cyanide each year. When cyanide is used in mining, some of this chemical gets spilled and some is in left within mine waste which often buried underground which is sadly close to ground water, leaving communities and public health officials worried about the side effects om drinking water, pollution and surrounding of ecosystem and wildlife. In 2000, a breach in a tailing (mining waste) dam at a
Operation “Final Answer”. During the investigation to uncover the fraud, the FBI used several different forms of surveillance. In this paper I will describe how the actual fraud was committed and subsequent aftermath of the investigation. Case Study The McDonald’s Monopoly game fraud was discovered in August of 2001, when it was revealed that certain employees of Simon Marketing and associates had colluded to
landscape research may be able to address or even rectify instances of social injustice if it is “deeply-social historical...based on records, documents, interviews, empirical evidence and a means to integrate that evidence”, and centered upon a critical study of “uneven geographical development” and power distribution (2015, p. 791-792). Not only is landscape research highly pertinent to the issues facing FN groups in northern Alberta, but it may be an important component of any strategy devised to better
High Risk – Low Return: The case against uranium mining in Queensland Australian Conservation Foundation Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Electrical Trades Union Friends of the Earth North Queensland Conservation Council Queensland Conservation Council Queensland Nuclear Free Alliance The Wilderness Society Cover picture: Mine tailings dam failure at Merriespruit, South Africa gold mine. On the day of the failure 50mm of rain fell in 30 minutes, comparable to flooding rain quantities
Click on one of the questions below to learn more. How much will I pay in royalties and advertising? What fees will I pay when I become a KFC franchisee? Initial Franchise Fee = Monthly Service Fee (Royalties) = Advertising = $45,000 (if you open a KT multi-brand restaurant, the fees will be $75,000) 5 percent (5%) of Gross Sales 5 percent (5%) of Gross Sales (Includes national and local contributions) The above amounts do not include the initial investment required to construct
Introduction to Retail Retail comes from the French word retailler, which refers to "cutting off my hands, clip and divide" in terms of tailoring (1365). It first was recorded as a noun with the meaning of a "sale in small quantities" in 1433 (French). Its literal meaning for retail was to "cut off, shred, off my toes paring".[2] Like the French, the word retail in both Dutch and German (detailhandel and Einzelhandel respectively), also refers to the sale of small quantities of items. Retail consists
Sustainability Review 2010 bp.com/sustainability 2 A letter from our group chief executive / 4 How BP is changing 6 Gulf of Mexico oil spill / 14 How we operate / 22 Energy future 30 Safety / 34 Environment / 38 Society Within hours of the Deepwater Horizon accident, BP teams were working to stop the leak. We also acted to minimize the spill’s impact on the environment by containing, removing and dispersing oil offshore, protecting the shoreline and cleaning up oil that came ashore. And we
Chapter 1 Review Questions 1. Define what is encompassed in the term information technology. Information technology includes both the computer technology that enables the processing and storing of information as well as the communication technology that enables the transmission of this information. 2. What are some of the ways that IT has become “pervasive”? In the workplace, IT has become commonplace. It is becoming rare for an employee in most industries to