EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book American Energy Imperiled Coast

Download or read book American Energy Imperiled Coast written by Jason P. Theriot and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the post--World War II era, Louisiana's coastal wetlands underwent an industrial transformation that placed the region at the center of America's energy-producing corridor. By the twenty-first century the Louisiana Gulf Coast supplied nearly one-third of America's oil and gas, accounted for half of the country's refining capacity, and contributed billions of dollars to the U.S. economy. Today, thousands of miles of pipelines and related infrastructure link the state's coast to oil and gas consumers nationwide. During the course of this historic development, however, the dredging of pipeline canals accelerated coastal erosion. Currently, 80 percent of the United States' wetland loss occurs on Louisiana's coast despite the fact that the state is home to only 40 percent of the nation's wetland acreage, making evident the enormous unin-tended environmental cost associated with producing energy from the Gulf Coast. In American Energy, Imperiled Coast Jason P. Theriot explores the tension between oil and gas development and the land-loss crisis in Louisiana. His book offers an engaging analysis of both the impressive, albeit ecologically destructive, engineering feats that characterized industrial growth in the region and the mounting environmental problems that threaten south Louisiana's communities, culture, and "working" coast. As a historian and coastal Louisiana native, Theriot explains how pipeline technology enabled the expansion of oil and gas delivery -- examining previously unseen photographs and company records -- and traces the industry's far-reaching environmental footprint in the wetlands. Through detailed research presented in a lively and accessible narrative, Theriot pieces together decades of political, economic, social, and cultural undertakings that clashed in the 1980s and 1990s, when local citizens, scientists, politicians, environmental groups, and oil and gas interests began fighting over the causes and consequences of coastal land loss. The mission to restore coastal Louisiana ultimately collided with the perceived economic necessity of expanding offshore oil and gas development at the turn of the twenty-first century. Theriot's book bridges the gap between these competing objectives. From the discovery of oil and gas below the marshes around coastal salt domes in the 1920s and 1930s to the emergence of environmental sciences and policy reforms in the 1970s to the vast repercussions of the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, American Energy, Imperiled Coast ultimately reveals that the natural and man-made forces responsible for rapid environmental change in Louisiana's wetlands over the past century can only be harnessed through collaboration between public and private entities.

Book MMS

Download or read book MMS written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Offshore Scientific Technical Publications

Download or read book Offshore Scientific Technical Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proposed Central Gulf of Mexico OCS Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 166 March 1997 and Proposed Western Gulf of Mexico OCS Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 168 August 1997

Download or read book Proposed Central Gulf of Mexico OCS Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 166 March 1997 and Proposed Western Gulf of Mexico OCS Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 168 August 1997 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1995 Central and Western Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf OCS Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sales 152 and 155 Central and Western Planning Areas

Download or read book 1995 Central and Western Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf OCS Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sales 152 and 155 Central and Western Planning Areas written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book For the Proposed Eastern Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sale 181

Download or read book For the Proposed Eastern Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sale 181 written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gulf of Mexico Sales 157 and 161 Central and Western Planning Areas Outer Continental Shelf OCS Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease AL TX MS LA

Download or read book Gulf of Mexico Sales 157 and 161 Central and Western Planning Areas Outer Continental Shelf OCS Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease AL TX MS LA written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General New Source NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit for Oil and Gas Extractions in the Territorial Seas of the Gulf of Mexico Off Texas and Louisiana TX LA

Download or read book General New Source NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit for Oil and Gas Extractions in the Territorial Seas of the Gulf of Mexico Off Texas and Louisiana TX LA written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gulf of Mexico Sales 131 135 and 137 Central Western and Eastern Planning Areas

Download or read book Gulf of Mexico Sales 131 135 and 137 Central Western and Eastern Planning Areas written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outer continental shelf natural gas and oil resource management comprehensive program 1992 1997

Download or read book Outer continental shelf natural gas and oil resource management comprehensive program 1992 1997 written by United States. Minerals Management Service and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General New Source National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NPDES Permit for Discharges from the Offshore Subcategory of the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category to the Territorial Seas of Texas

Download or read book General New Source National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NPDES Permit for Discharges from the Offshore Subcategory of the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category to the Territorial Seas of Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Salinity Characteristics of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries

Download or read book Salinity Characteristics of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Understanding the Long Term Evolution of the Coupled Natural Human Coastal System

Download or read book Understanding the Long Term Evolution of the Coupled Natural Human Coastal System written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Gulf Coast provides a valuable setting to study deeply connected natural and human interactions and feedbacks that have led to a complex, interconnected coastal system. The physical landscape in the region has changed significantly due to broad-scale, long-term processes such as coastal subsidence and river sediment deposition as well as short-term episodic events such as hurricanes. Modifications from human activities, including building levees and canals and constructing buildings and roads, have left their own imprint on the natural landscape. This coupled natural-human coastal system and the individual aspects within it (physical, ecological, and human) are under increased pressure from accelerating environmental stressors such as sea level rise, intensifying hurricanes, and continued population increase with its accompanying coastal development. Promoting the resilience and maintaining the habitability of the Gulf Coast into the future will need improved understanding of the coupled natural-human coastal system, as well as effective sharing of this understanding in support of decision-making and policies. Understanding the Long-term Evolution of the Coupled Natural-Human Coastal System presents a research agenda meant to enable a better understanding of the multiple and interconnected factors that influence long-term processes along the Gulf Coast. This report identifies scientific and technical gaps in understanding the interactions and feedbacks between human and natural processes, defines essential components of a research and development program in response to the identified gaps, and develops priorities for critical areas of research.