scholarly journals Natural Gas Industry Restructuring for Value Optimisation: A Case Study of Ghana

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shafic Suleman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Industry Restructuring ◽  
Natural Gas Industry

scholarly journals The contribution of forest remnants within industrial area to threatened mammal conservation: A case study in liquefied natural gas industry in Bontang, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
SUDRAJAT ◽  
MINTORO DWI PUTRO
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Forest Fragments ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
East Kalimantan ◽  
Forest Remnants ◽  
Natural Gas Industry ◽  
Mammal Conservation

Abstract. Sudrajat, Putro MD. 2019. The contribution of forest remnants within industrial area to endemic and threatened mammal conservation: A case study in liquefied natural gas industry in Bontang, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 20: 2257-2265. Tropical forests harbor high biodiversity, while natural protected area is one of the approaches for biodiversity conservation. However, the conversion of natural forests for various purposes has caused forest fragmentation. A novel strategy of conservation is proposed in the form of protected area within industrial estate as the contribution of industrial company in biodiversity conservation. The purpose of this study is to document the endemic and threatened species of mammals existing at two forest fragments with extent of 15 ha and 7.4 ha in a natural gas refinery industry area in Bontang, East Kalimantan and their potential as biodiversity conservation areas. Mammals were monitored at the two forest fragments through direct surveys, trace identification, mist nets, and camera traps. The results of the study show that according to IUCN Red List there were 23 mammal species (belonging to 18 genera, 15 families and six orders) of conservation concern found within the forest fragments including one species is under Critically Endangered, two are Endangered, four are Vulnerable, ten are Least Concern, one is Near Threatened and three are Not Evaluated. Four of those species are considered as endemic, namely Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus morio, Müller’s gibbon, Hylobates muelleri, Proboscis monkey, Nasalis larvatus and East Bornean slow loris, Nycticebus menagensis. These findings suggest that forest fragments located in the environment of industrial estate can be considered as important conservation strategy if they are well preserved and maintained.

scholarly journals Electricity Deregulation in Canada: An Idea Which Has Yet to Be Tried

2002 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Roman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Industry Restructuring ◽  
Canadian Experience ◽  
Electricity Deregulation ◽  
Natural Gas Industry

The author outlines the factors involved in the "deregulation " of government-controlled industries, highlighting confusion caused by that misdescription. The challenges facing the Alberta and Ontario governments in the fledgling efforts at restructuring their electricity industries are illustrated against a backdrop of lessons derived from the attempted "deregulation " of electricity in California, and from the Canadian experience with airline, telecommunications, and natural gas industry restructuring.

scholarly journals Identifying the factors affecting competitiveness: A case study of Iranian natural gas industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 100674
Author(s):  
Morteza Soltani ◽  
Bahman Hajipour ◽  
Jafar Tayebinia
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Natural Gas Industry

scholarly journals The role of IRP in the natural gas industry: A case study

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A. Wright ◽  
L. Brockman ◽  
P. Herman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Natural Gas Industry

scholarly journals Framing fracking: private property, common resources, and regimes of governance

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Hudgins ◽  
Amanda Poole
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Marcellus Shale ◽  
The State ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Spheres Of Influence ◽  
Natural Gas Development ◽  
Natural Gas Industry

In this policy ethnography we examine the discourse related to unconventional natural gas development in western Pennsylvania in order to illuminate expressions of political power in attempts to manufacture consent. We focus on the overlapping spheres of influence between the state and capital to dissect techniques of governance as they operate at the level of civil society. Data collection from fieldwork and discourse analysis, particularly focused on discourse about recent legislation to regulate the booming natural gas industry in Pennsylvania, reveals the ways in which industry proponents attempt to corral public opinion to the goal of extracting and amassing capital. We analyze how industry actors try to gain and draw from the authority and approval of the state in those efforts. In turn, the state uses its socially sanctioned authority to reframe water, land, air, community, health, and self around a paradigm that interprets those as sources of profit. This case study examines how, under neoliberalism, the state organizes knowledge on the topic of fracking such that the balance of power shifts further out of democratic reach.Key Words: capital, discourse analysis, ethnography, fracking, Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania Act 13, governance

Finding Fault with the Nexus Pipeline? Agency Capture and the Public Good

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Kear
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Environmental Impact Statement ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fracturing Process ◽  
Natural Gas Industry ◽  
Regulatory Commission

Natural gas is an increasingly vital U.S. energy source that is presently being tapped and transported across state and international boundaries. Controversy engulfs natural gas, from the hydraulic fracturing process used to liberate it from massive, gas-laden Appalachian shale deposits, to the permitting and construction of new interstate pipelines bringing it to markets. This case explores the controversy flowing from the proposed 256-mile-long interstate Nexus pipeline transecting northern Ohio, southeastern Michigan and terminating at the Dawn Hub in Ontario, Canada. As the lead agency regulating and permitting interstate pipelines, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is also tasked with mitigating environmental risks through the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act's Environmental Impact Statement process. Pipeline opponents assert that a captured federal agency ignores public and scientific input, inadequately addresses public health and safety risks, preempts local control, and wields eminent domain powers at the expense of landowners, cities, and everyone in the pipeline path. Proponents counter that pipelines are the safest means of transporting domestically abundant, cleaner burning, affordable gas to markets that will boost local and regional economies and serve the public good. Debates over what constitutes the public good are only one set in a long list of contentious issues including pipeline safety, proposed routes, property rights, public voice, and questions over the scientific and democratic validity of the Environmental Impact Statement process. The Nexus pipeline provides a sobering example that simple energy policy solutions and compromise are elusive—effectively fueling greater conflict as the natural gas industry booms.

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