The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. Intensive farming techniques depleted the soil, while a prolonged drought dried out the land. Heavy winds blew the loose soil into huge dust storms, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to become migrants seeking work. The government eventually established relief programs and the Soil Conservation Service to help restore the land and aid those displaced by the ecological disaster.
HUG Siphon System
• The water level behind the Otto Holden Hydro Dam on the Ottawa River can be maintained at 179.5 m above sea level, while the water level in Lake Huron is 176.5 m. This difference of 3 m is the basis of water transfer through a HUG Siphon System for 171 km.
• The HUG Siphon system can be buried under any populated built up areas. HUG can also be raised to189.5 m above sea level.
• It will be difficult to say NO to Water Export Revenue of $433 Million/year at the auction price of $0.13/ m3s for 135 m3
• Each of the 150 million people whose needs could be served by the project would pay the reasonable rate of $50 per year. In this case, annual income from the exports would be $7.5 billion.
• The total initial cost of this mega project is $347.5 + $232.25 = $580 million.
• HUG has a potential of Hydro Revenue of $210 Million/yr (11 kW/m2)
• HUG has a potential of Water Export Revenue of 56 m3s@auction price of $0.13/ m3s of $180 Million/yr / HUG System
• Water Export Revenue of 2000 m3s = $6.4 Billion/yr for 35 HUG Siphon Systems
• Return on Investment : $180 +$210 / $580 million = 67%/yr for 1 HUG System.
• An alternative desalination plant (1.2 m3s) is twice the price, because it is energy intensive and it incurs high-pollution costs that could escalate as energy price increase.
• Nine bodies of 265 m3s water share the same environment: only a distance of 1.5 m to 12 km apart, which can be diverted to Lake Superior.
Environment Debate Research:
Topic: Environmental movements overstate environmental concerns.
Position: Agree; Many independent environmental movements overstate the severity of environmental concerns and inflate the facts in order to gain more support from the public.
Opening Statements:
· Max: It is not to say that climate change does not exist, and it is not to say that the actions of humans are adversely affecting the environment, but the tactics used by some environmental movements to garner support rely on exaggerated and manipulated scare tactics to rally together people.
· Josh: For a topic such as Climate Change, we do not know for sure if the increase in temperature is actually caused by humans, or just part of the cycle of temperatures in Earth’s history. Each cycle lasts about 100k to 800k. Just 110k years ago, the world experienced the last major Ice Age when North America and Eurasia were completely covered by huge glaciers. The last little ice age was between 1400 and 1700. Throughout its history, Earth has had cooling and warming periods. What we do not know, is if the continued combustion of fossil fuels and increased atmospheric CO2 concentration will cause “global warming” to continue. There is no scientific proof! And even if we do have policies and make economic sacrifices to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, we do not know if it will even have a beneficial effect
Debate Points/Research (links due Fri. 4/15):
· Timeline of environmental movements
· http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/earthdays/
· Environmental Movements date back to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in 1948
· Environmental movements don’t work anyway
· http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-montague/green-initiatives_b_1301418.html
· No large funders care about the little guys doing the hard work to protect the environment – because of this the money is going to the big guys who don’t do much other than lobby, which isn’t working anyway.
· Bad research that is spread by movements only further hurts the environment
· https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1117-jim-steele-on-how-bad-global-warming-science-hurts-the-environmental-movement/
· Many people jump on a bandwagon without critically thinking about the issue
· Ex.: Things, such as butterflies that were run out of their area by landscape change that was caused by heavy conservation efforts, but was immediately blamed on climate change and CO2.
· When we lose ice on the west of Antarctica, ice builds up on the east, but people only pay attention to the west
· CO2 seems to be blamed for everything
· https://www.corbettreport.com/a-message-to-the-environmental-movement-hd/
· Legitimate ideas and concerns have been swept up by big business environmental groups and are being sold back to the public in order to turn an even greater profit.
· Many of the people that campaign are not scientist, only people that cite scientists that aren’t always correct
· http://dailycal ...
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