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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 19
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When last seen in The Glass Rainbow, Dave Robicheaux was recovering in a New Orleans hospital from a near-fatal bullet wound. Immobilized and heavily medicated by morphine, he was visited there by a beautiful Creole woman named Tee Jolie Melton. After she's gone, his fond, hazy remembrances of her are rekindled by one song on the iPod that she kindly left behind. Now obsessed by the song and thoughts of her, he goes in search of his Creole belle,...
2) The Selendang Ayu oil spill: a study of the renewable resource community of Dutch Harbor/Unalaska
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Quick response research report volume 181
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[2006]
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Discusses how an oil spill impacts a community relient on natural resources for its livelihood.
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Quick response research report volume 91
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1996.
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Disaster events such as the North Cape oil spill threaten natural resources, and thus can impact the human communities that rely on such resources. This analysis contrasts the perceptions of individuals living near the disaster site with those living at the opposite end of the state.
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2013.
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The Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) has been asked to use a risk-based strategy of inspection that will target the oil and gas operational phases that are most likely to experience spills and create a health risk to the public and environment. For each oil and gas spill reported to COGCC, Rule 906 requires that the responsible party fill out a Spill/Release Report, Form 19. For the last 20 years, the COGCC has required that spills...
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2011.
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Two recent stories in The Denver Post on Sept. 12 and a longer version on Sept. 13 focused on spills and releases associated with Colorado's oil and gas industry. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission believes it's critical to responsibly address spills, releases, and other impacts to the environment and that such work is key to our mission to balance a thriving industry with protection of our air, land, water and health.
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2016.
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Senate Bill 13-202 mandated the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) use a "riskbased strategy for inspecting oil and gas locations that targets the operational phases that are most likely to experience spills, excess emissions, and other types of violations and that prioritizes more indepth inspections." To accomplish this, the COGCC created a "Risk-Based Inspections" report in February 2014.
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"From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, "a place where...
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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...
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[2022]
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A beach cleanup leads Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny on a new set of adventures.
When an oil spill takes place off the coast of Connecticut, the Aldens are happy to volunteer to help clean up the animals affected, including a rare species of shore bird. But could more have been done to prevent the spill? As the Aldens take up the case, it leads them on an adventure to help other endangered animals around the world.
15) Crude Impact
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p2009
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An examination of the interconnection of human domination of the planet and the use of petroleum, and offers solutions for how we can stop our progression down this destructive path.
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[2011]
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"The first book about the BP disaster by a world-renowned oceanographer, A SEA IN FLAMES examines the environmental and social consequences of the spill from the perspective of those directly affected by it. It will be published on the one-year anniversary of the spill, in April 2011. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is among the greatest environmental catastrophes in U.S. history. Carl Safina's Blowout provides an extraordinary perspective on it. Consisting...
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[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"The African Penguin population is critically low, due to various factors including climate change. Scientists and volunteers with a South African organization are helping to rescue these endangered birds by rearing abandoned chicks."--
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Bindi wildlife adventures volume 5
Pub. Date
c2010
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Bindi, escorting a pair of troublesome twins on a whale-watching outing, rushes to the scene of a boating accident and comes across an oil spill that could endanger marine life for hundreds of miles.
20) Oil-soaked wings
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[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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An oil spill spells trouble for Seaside Sanctuary and the birds and other marine animals that live along the beach, including a young pelican that Elsa and Olivia rescue; all the birds need to be carefully cleaned and given medical attention--but there is another problem: until the spill is cleaned up the birds cannot be released, and the company responsible for the spill does not seem interested in doing its part.
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