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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Exxon"”.
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Mass media and alternative coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill
… the use of content analysis, 132 articles on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill were selected and analyzed in four alternative magazines and one American newspaper. It was hypothesized that content varied according to the differences in media type. Results suggested that differences in media do have …
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The Sound and the Fury: Common Sense About the Exxon Valdez
"Using articulation theory, it moves beyond the quagmire of the great wilderness debate, and charts a middle ground between, on the one hand, the overly optimistic and non-deterministic celebration of ""wild nature"" as an unproblematic solution to complex social and ecological problems, and, on …
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Corporate apologia : Exxon's use of video in response to the Valdez incident.
… tapes as examples. The tapes were produced by Exxon Corporation and were used as part of an ongoing employee information program designed to update the company's employees and affiliates immediately following the grounding of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker which spilled 240,000 barrels of oil into …
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Clean Up Techniques Used for Coastal Oil Spills: An Analysis of Spills Occurring in Santa Barbara, California, Prince William Sound, Alaska, the Sea Of Japan, and the Gulf Coast
… Santa Barbara, California Oil Spill of 1969, the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill of 1989 occurring in Prince William Sound, Alaska, the Nakhodka Oil Spill of 1997 occurring in the Sea of Japan, and the Deep Water Horizon Oil spill of 2010 occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, are analyzed. The different types …
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The evolution prospects of the post-OPA90 Alaskan Oil Trade
In response to the grounding of the Exxon Valdez on March 24, 1989, the United States Congress enacted the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, a series of regulations requiring technical and operational changes in tank vessels trading in U.S. waters with the intention of preventing future spills. Although …
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Firm's Image Restoration Strategies: Cases in Ethical Apologia in Corporate Crisis
… researched are Ford, Johnson & Johnson, Exxon, McDonald's, AT&T, Union Carbide, Gerber, and Kinder Morgan. Each case is studied in depth and the image restoration strategy used by each is examined and judged for its success in correcting the problem.</p> <p>The research conducted provides …
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Alaska Through The Looking Glass: And What Twentieth Century American Photojournalists Saw There
… infrastructure (1968-1977); Chapter Four the Exxon Valdez tanker oil spill (1989); and Chapter Five the debate to drill the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which begins in the twentieth century and extends into the twenty-first century (1980- 2017). In addition to an analysis of the …
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Existing concepts in the law of the sea: possible bases for places of refuge?
… the worst oil spill since the grounding of the Exxon Valdez in 1989. The oil spread was driven onshore polluting 290 km of Spanish coastline. If the tanker had been given shelter in a small bay the pollution could easily have been contained. It also threatened to pollute the coasts of France and …
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Influence of beach hydrodynamics on saltwater transport and oil persistence in beaches
… (PWS), Alaska, which was heavily polluted by the Exxon Valdez oil. The observed data of water table, pore water salinity and tracer (lithium) concentration indicates high freshwater recharge to the clean transect and low freshwater recharge to the oiled transect. The numerical model MARLIN is used …
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Estratigrafia de seqüências : uso da icnologia, dos argilominerais e da geoquímica em rochas de idade permiana na Bacia do Paraná, Região de Lauro Müller (SC), Brasil
… da Estratigrafia de Seqüências (sentido Exxon). Para isso, foi selecionado o intervalo estratigráfico, compreendido do Sakmariano ao Kunguriano (Permiano), correspondente às formações Rio do Sul, Rio Bonito e base da Formação Palermo. A área de estudo está situada na borda leste da Bacia …
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Characterization and comparison of microbial communities from different tourist ports in Mediterranean Sea and evaluation of applicability of bioremediation treatments
… since its successful application after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill. The general objective of this work was to evaluate and compare the applicability of different bioremediation approaches of seawaters and sediments in Mediterranean tourist ports. Particularly, it was directed to contribute to the …