http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/fortworth/stories/DN-fwfire_24met.ART.State.Edition1.42e10b1.html
http://www.exeloncorp.com/news/
On April 24,2007 a gas pipeline in Fort Worth Erupted into flames. The pipline is owned by Dallas Based Energy Transfer and the transfer station is owned by Exelon. Well its hard to make a comparason on how the dallas morning news handled the crisis and how Exeloncorp handled it. Exeloncorp seems to not even be talking about it. The newspaper stressed that no one lost any energy service and no one was hurt. The problem was taken care of quickly.
Exelon has a really nice layout for their website. Its easy to navigate and has a handy search function on the first page. It lists all their saftey precautions and concerns. There is even a news release link. Then its divided up into different kinds of news releases. So with all this organization you think that this pipeline erupting and shooting fire about 100 feet into the air would warrent a press release, but no the only press release I could find for April 23, 2007 *the date of the actual incident* were "green" related stories. I guess earth day was the influence there and that's fine, but they obviously should have responded to this problem on their website. Now I found a few cricis issues when I was looking around on the web but a lot of the companies didnt have a website which surprised me. So I ended up choosing this recent issue, but the company had a wonderful website they just didn't respond.
I found this project a littel frustrating. I found an crisis where a toddler in waco was founding holding a cocaine bag. I was thought this would be an interesting study. Then i found out the place where child was there was no website for. Wow way to respond haha. I could only find stories covering the incident but no follow up and no website. I guess this should send a message...you NEED a website to handle crisis in this day and age.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Correcting my mistakes
Well i now i realize I did one of my bios on the wrong person. *sigh* so here is my new entry.
Ramaswamy R Iyer:
Ramaswamy R Iyer is an honorary professor at the Centre for Policy Reasearch. He is considered an expert in water resources, political and social economic isssues, public administration and governance issues, and public enterprise. He graduated with honors and a B.A. in English Language and Literature in Bombay, 1948. He went on to also get a masters in English Language and Literature in Bombay, 1948. He recieved a post-graduate diploma in Economic and Social Administration at The School of Economics in London. He was the Secretary of the Government of India. He was the Secretary of Economic Administration Reforms Commission. He was also the Senior Advisor of the International Centre for Public Enterprises at Ljubljana, Yugoslavia which is now Slovenia. He was the Ministry of Water Resources. Post-retirement he was a member of Public Enterprises Selection Board. He has written several books including: A Grammer for Public Enterprises, Harnessing the Eastern Hymalan Rivers, Converting Wealth into Water, Mid-Year Review of the Economy 1993-97, and WATER: Perspectives, Issues, Concerns. He has also written for newspapers, journals, seminar, and conferences.
Ramaswamy R Iyer:
Ramaswamy R Iyer is an honorary professor at the Centre for Policy Reasearch. He is considered an expert in water resources, political and social economic isssues, public administration and governance issues, and public enterprise. He graduated with honors and a B.A. in English Language and Literature in Bombay, 1948. He went on to also get a masters in English Language and Literature in Bombay, 1948. He recieved a post-graduate diploma in Economic and Social Administration at The School of Economics in London. He was the Secretary of the Government of India. He was the Secretary of Economic Administration Reforms Commission. He was also the Senior Advisor of the International Centre for Public Enterprises at Ljubljana, Yugoslavia which is now Slovenia. He was the Ministry of Water Resources. Post-retirement he was a member of Public Enterprises Selection Board. He has written several books including: A Grammer for Public Enterprises, Harnessing the Eastern Hymalan Rivers, Converting Wealth into Water, Mid-Year Review of the Economy 1993-97, and WATER: Perspectives, Issues, Concerns. He has also written for newspapers, journals, seminar, and conferences.
Friday, March 9, 2007
Lead and Bios
In 2003 the department of philosophy at University of North Texas launched the WaterWays Projcet. This program deals with water issues including, scarcity, quality, quantity of reserves, cultural concepts, and restoring riparian areas. This year they are happy to invite you to the second biennial Water Ways Conference 2007. The conference will start on Tuesday March 13 through Thursday March 15. The conference is open to the public and will feature Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, and John A. Mchlan.
Bios:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr is the chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and the President of the WaterKeeper Alliance. In addition to this he is a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University. He was formerly Assistant District Attorney in New York City. He was involved in several political campaigns such as the campaign of Edward M. Kennedy in 1980, Al Gore in 2000, and John Kerry in 2004.
Mr Kennedy was name in Time Magazine's "Heroes for the Planet" for leading the fight in the Hudson River restoration process, which helped to create over 130 waterkeeper organizations across the globe. His fight to preserve the environment is not limited to just the US, but has spread to Latin America and Canada where he helped negotiate treaties to save indigenous tribe's homelands. Mr Kennedy is a Harvard grad student who also studied at the London School of Economics. He received his law degree from the University of Virgina Law school and his masters at Pace University.
John McLachlan, Ph. D.
Jon McLachlan is a renowned Biologist, director of Riversphere, and the Katrina Environmental Research & Restoration Network. The Riversphere is a museum of science, history, art, and culture at the banks of the Mississippi river in downtown New Orleans Louisiana. Doctor john McLachlan earn his B.A. degree in Liberal Arts from John Hopkins University and his doctorate degree in Pharmacology at the George Washington University. He is currently the director at the Center for Bio environmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities. He is a Weatherford distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies.
Bios:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr is the chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and the President of the WaterKeeper Alliance. In addition to this he is a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University. He was formerly Assistant District Attorney in New York City. He was involved in several political campaigns such as the campaign of Edward M. Kennedy in 1980, Al Gore in 2000, and John Kerry in 2004.
Mr Kennedy was name in Time Magazine's "Heroes for the Planet" for leading the fight in the Hudson River restoration process, which helped to create over 130 waterkeeper organizations across the globe. His fight to preserve the environment is not limited to just the US, but has spread to Latin America and Canada where he helped negotiate treaties to save indigenous tribe's homelands. Mr Kennedy is a Harvard grad student who also studied at the London School of Economics. He received his law degree from the University of Virgina Law school and his masters at Pace University.
John McLachlan, Ph. D.
Jon McLachlan is a renowned Biologist, director of Riversphere, and the Katrina Environmental Research & Restoration Network. The Riversphere is a museum of science, history, art, and culture at the banks of the Mississippi river in downtown New Orleans Louisiana. Doctor john McLachlan earn his B.A. degree in Liberal Arts from John Hopkins University and his doctorate degree in Pharmacology at the George Washington University. He is currently the director at the Center for Bio environmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities. He is a Weatherford distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies.
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