Word: basins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other side of the Indian Ocean, India has reportedly found indications of an oil bonanza off its southeast coast. Michael Morrow, publisher of Hong Kong's Petroleum News, told TIME that "on the basis of preliminary drilling, Indian officials believe they have found the largest offshore oil basin anywhere in the world...
...tracks would be scattered over 45,000 sq. mi. of federally owned land in the Great Basin desert of Utah and Nevada. Matheson and List urged Congress to reconsider the sites because of the damage the project would cause the fragile ecosystem of the area. They were particularly concerned that the construction would increase an already severe water shortage. In addition, Matheson claimed, the invasion of the construction crews would change forever what he called "the chosen way of life" of people in the region's tiny rural communities. Beyond their plea to Congress, the Governors plan to wage...
...demise of the town too. And last week, obeying a 1976 order by a U.S. district court to stop dumping in the lake, the facility did close-though only until May. Then the plant will reopen and begin shipping its wastes by rail and pipeline to a huge inland basin. There the tailings will be deposited and kept covered under 10 ft. of water so that the fiber dust cannot escape. Speaking about his town, Silver Bay's Mayor Robert Kind, an officer in the state highway patrol, says happily: "Now I think we are going to hold...
Enclosed in a remote marshy area by huge dams made of coarse tailings covered with vegetation, the mammoth basin measures nearly 6 sq. mi. and will cost $370 million when fully completed. The other costs of the long environmental dispute have also been large, ranging from such intangibles as fears in Silver Bay of a permanent plant shutdown (which local physicians blame for a flurry of marriage breakups and a rise in prescriptions for tranquilizers) to the $7 million that Duluth had to pay for a filtration plant when the city's drinking water was found to contain...
Hefty too: up to 2,200 Ibs. of blubbery bulk. But while Cleveland hailed from New Jersey, the manatee is a native of warmer climes: the rivers of West Africa, the Amazon basin, the shores of the Caribbean, and the coasts of Florida. Now the gentle and once plentiful creature is in serious danger of extinction. In Africa and South America, tribesmen have hunted it for its delectable meat-not unlike veal-as well as its fat and oil, leathery skin and ivory-like bone. In Florida, only some 1,000 remain, and the death rate appears to be exceeding...