And it will be for sometime with that luddite view!
So what do you use instead of oil?
And it will be for sometime with that luddite view!
So what do you use instead of oil?
There is no instead of oil at the moment, unfortunately our infrastructure is to depended on it. ... Stimulating focusing on our hugely neglected manufacturing base again giving tax breaks for those based within this field thus giving them a chance to be more competitive on a global market.
its more than infrastructure, you do know what is used in an awful lot of manufacturing, dont you? try this: identify everything in your house that uses an oil based component and stop using it.
its more than infrastructure, you do know what is used in an awful lot of manufacturing, dont you? try this: identify everything in your house that uses an oil based component and stop using it.
its more than infrastructure, you do know what is used in an awful lot of manufacturing, dont you? try this: identify everything in your house that uses an oil based component and stop using it.
How much do we waste? Do we need polystyrene trays for apples? Do we need tulips from Kenya? Do we need to produce so much food that 50% never makes it to a plate?
These are some of the issue's people have with oil companies.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell
One report, compiled by WWF UK, the World Conservation Union and representatives from the Nigerian federal government and the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, calculated in 2006 that up to 1.5m tons of oil – 50 times the pollution unleashed in the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in Alaska – has been spilled in the delta over the past half century. Last year Amnesty calculated that the equivalent of at least 9m barrels of oil was spilled and accused the oil companies of a human rights outrage.
According to Nigerian federal government figures, there were more than 7,000 spills between 1970 and 2000, and there are 2,000 official major spillages sites, many going back decades, with thousands of smaller ones still waiting to be cleared up. More than 1,000 spill cases have been filed against Shell alone.
Last month Shell admitted to spilling 14,000 tonnes of oil in 2009. The majority, said the company, was lost through two incidents – one in which the company claims that thieves damaged a wellhead at its Odidi field and another where militants bombed the Trans Escravos pipeline.
At least 230 people were killed and 190 injured when an oil tanker flipped over and exploded in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a government spokesman said Saturday.
And now they want to go into one of the hardest and last untouched areas of the planet.
Which leads to another question, if buying goods from Kenya helps to boost their economy by providing work, from the growers to those transporting the goods. How would getting rid of the demand for these types of goods being exported to other countries affect Kenya's population? Would it send more people into poverty.
The question regarding wasted food maybe should also be, what happens to it afterwards? - does it get recycled into fertilizer, used to produce energy (using the methane given off) etc, or does it go into landfill
Since much of the garden vegetables grown in East Africa get imported by air into Lincolnshire and other parts of Eastern England, you could ask a related question: how much is this contributing to the exploitation of low-paid Eastern European migrant workers in British packing factories?Which leads to another question, if buying goods from Kenya helps to boost their economy by providing work, from the growers to those transporting the goods. How would getting rid of the demand for these types of goods being exported to other countries affect Kenya's population? Would it send more people into poverty.
I watched a programme recently talking about Nigeria and they actually travelled to various parts and saw a lot of the pipelines where oil was leaking. It was caused by fuel thieves damaging the pipelines or valves, etc in order to steal oil to sell to overseas buyers illegally. It was not caused by a shoddy approach and cutting corners by the oil companies as you seem to be suggesting above but by organised crime.
I expect this accounts for the vast majority of your 7000 spills between 1970 and 2000.
Will there be many criminals in 'one of the hardest and last untouched areas of the planet'?
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/07/03/dr.congo.explosion/index.html
At least 230 people were killed and 190 injured when an oil tanker flipped over and exploded in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a government spokesman said Saturday.
Which leads to another question, if buying goods from Kenya helps to boost their economy by providing work, from the growers to those transporting the goods. How would getting rid of the demand for these types of goods being exported to other countries affect Kenya's population? Would it send more people into poverty.
The question regarding wasted food maybe should also be, what happens to it afterwards? - does it get recycled into fertilizer, used to produce energy (using the methane given off) etc, or does it go into landfill
Today, we produce about four billion metric tonnes of food per annum. Yet due to poor practices in harvesting, storage and transportation, as well as market and consumer wastage, it is estimated that 30–50% (or 1.2–2 billion tonnes) of all food produced never reaches a human stomach. Furthermore, this figure does not reflect the fact that large amounts of land, energy, fertilisers and water have also been lost in the production of foodstuffs which simply end up as waste. This level of wastage is a tragedy that cannot continue if we are to succeed in the challenge of sustainably meeting our future food demands.
Hang on, now i don't care much for drilling in the arctic and give my money to Greenpeace but...
the story your talking about here was the driver and the locals fault; he crashed, spilled oil and the locals went in to collect the free oil whilst smoking and BOOM! That has nothing to do with the Oil and Gas companies.
The figures regarding Nigeria as GF correctly points out are in fact due to bunkering, This is criminals breaking the pipe, refining the oil and selling back in-country for profit. That also has nothing to do with the Oil and Gas companies and in fact is costing them Millions in lost revenue and security.
It doesn't make the oil companies blameless but on these two counts its not all their fault.
3% of crude oil use goes towards plastic manufacturing. We could do away with oil in transport and electricity generation, hugely reducing our dependence on it.
Manufacturing uses oil? I thought they made everything out off crystals; no wait a minute that's superman! I do appreciate the science test and yes i did realise that! That's why i said to start with at the end, just because we currently use oil in different forms in different products doesn't mean for one minute that its beyond the wit of man to start find alternatives.