No Reason For Cry Over Spilt Oil

“Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism” (Charles Clover, 2004).

Companies are making enough profit that they can afford to clean up their messes. According to the Article of Ocean Pollution: 6 Things That Make It Worse. “The ocean is already being damage of the littering,” and when they are shiping it out it's making it hard for the ocean so the company should pay of the damage. According to the Article of Ocean Pollution: 6 Things That Make It Worse, When a ship that is shiping oil out in the sea has very high risk of the storms ice borgs rocks, and all of that it takes a long time for people who tried to clean up the miss. According to the Article of Ocean Pollution: 6 Things That Make It Worse, Several of oil spills from tanker ships after accidents, including Deepwater and it would cause a lot of money to undo the damage.

With the development of the act, laws and regulations addressing issues associated with the prevention, responds and payment of oil pollution were put in place. Such laws and regulations mandated new requirements for companies and their associated personnel involved in the shipment or extraction of oil, such as prevention and response plans, routine documentation and licensing renewal, and evidence of personnel’s competency and knowledge. The act also revised the staffing standards of all foreign shipment vessels, thereby requiring all foreign vessels to meet U.S standards to gain entry into U.S territory. Additionally, these prevention laws and regulations required new standards for shipment vessels and routine inspections. Due to the extreme

On December 8, 2004, more than 300,000 gallons of heavy bulked fuel leaked from the ship wrecked Selendang Ayu, a Malaysian freighter, and washed ashore on the beaches of Skan Bay and Makushin Bay of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands (Ritchie & Gill, The Selendang Ayu Oil Spill: A Study of the Renewable Resource Community of Dutch Harbor/Unalaska, 2006, p.1). Dutch Harbor is the number one port for crabbing, processing plants, and fisheries of halibut, pollock, and cod. The port employees several of the inhabitants. The Coast Guard along with contracted officials implemented and begin executing a plan for cleanup. Meetings were held between the Unified Command and the community to inform them of the plan of action that was being taken to protect their revenue and restore their beaches. The natives of the island offered several suggestions for cleanup and felt unacknowledged about their concerns and offers to help. The Unified Command continued recovery efforts as originally planned and assured the community that the oil would not reach the shore. After a few weeks tar balls began to wash ashore, raising concerns of the residents. More meetings with the community were held eventually leading the UC to utilize

On the afternoon of January 28, 1969, a terrible environmental disaster occurred when a well blowout on the Union Oil Company platform A, causing one of the largest oil spill in the United States. The platform was located in Summerland Oil Field pier which 6 miles east of city of Santa Barbara. Riggers desperately tried to repair the well before oil started spreading to the shoreline. Needless to say, the effects of the oil spill sparked outrage from the local community and the media that inevitably caused ecological effects, safety and ethical concerns. It took oil workers a total of 11 days to cap the ruptured pipe, while an estimated 3 million gallons of poisonous black crude oil showered the Pacific Ocean. Sadly, oceans

The United States Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 which prevents any vessel that has caused an oil spill of more than 1 million US gallons in any marine area,

Under the Sea Dumping Act, the Commonwealth aims to minimise pollution threats by prohibiting ocean disposal of waste considered too harmful to be released in the marine environment and regulating permitted waste disposal to ensure environmental impacts are minimised. Permits are required for all sea dumping operations and are most commonly issued for dredging operations and the creation of artificial reefs applying to all vessels, aircraft and platforms in Australian waters. Under the Australian Government Department of Environment (2015), the Sea Dumping Act has a relationship with Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), as the act attends to all forms such as coal seam gas, mining and sea dumping. When an operation that requires the handling of goods that can potentially impact the environment, such as exporting fuel or plants and animals, the permit must be approved by the EPBC Act as well as the Sea Dumping Act. Many stakeholders believe that the changes need to be made to ensure minimal impact to the environment occurs. A recent example of pollution to Australian waters, is the investigation by the Gladstone Ports Corporation (GQC) of an alleged oil spill in Gladstone harbour which revealed the substance with the water to be coal fines. Coal fines are the small particles of coal material that are washed-off the coal during the preparation plant process. The GPC could not pin-point what caused coal fines to be in the water, but a spokeswoman for GPC said it was suspected the material had spilled out from one of the wharf's sample plants; Where the penalty for deliberately discharging oil or chemicals into Queensland waters is $550,000 for an individual and $11 million for a corporation (The Observer, 2013). The result of the spill has caused locally sourced fish to “have been found with sores, rashes, and infected eyes, some possibly blind” which has not only

Identify a case of environmental crime. Discuss what occurred in this case (the background and details of the case). Identify the harm caused by the event. Who was arrested and what was the punishment for the offenders (if any). Conclude with the long term or present effect as a result of this crime.

Transport Canada regulations and standards, under the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 (CSA 2001) and the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, combined with international conventions and standards established by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), provide the framework for the department’s comprehensive marine safety, pollution prevention, enforcement, and oil spill

BP and the other companies involved in the oil spill recognized they had to step up and take action in order to prevent additional damage to the victim(s), in this case, the families of the late crew members, the environment, and anyone affected by the spill – consumers of seafood products, fisherman, tourists, etc. BP efforts to clean-up the spill and their efforts for future preventative measures proved that their met the three main principals of restorative justice that were described in The Little Book of Restorative Justice by Howard Zehr. These three main principals focus on the needs and roles of the victims, the offenders, and the community (Zehr). They ensured that that the victims and the community needs were being tended to by cleaning up the damage and the met the needs of the offender (themselves) by showing accountability for their

This paper will explain some of the effects of three legal issues and three ethical issues surrounding the London-based British Petroleum Company’s involvement in the explosion of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon and the subsequent oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico. There are many legal issues surrounding this disaster, but the three this paper will focus on are the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, maritime laws, and criminal charges

Applying the theory of Utilitarianism to the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill we see that BP’s decisions in this case don’t appear clearly ethical. The harms to human and environmental stability caused by the spill seem to weigh heavily against the benefits to the local and U.S. economy of deepwater drilling itself.

of the spills reported that the company spilled 7.4 million liters of oil in 27 separate

As of March 28, there were still 217 vessels and 2,349 personnel working on cleaning up the spill. 3,474 kilometres of containment and absorbent boom were deployed against the spreading oil slick on August 2nd. 411 in-situ burns conducted (which burned 265,450 barrels of oil) and 1.4 million barrels of liquid waste collected.

Deepwater Horizon oil Spill: BP’s drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico had an explosion in April 2010, causing the “largest oil spill catastrophe in the petroleum industry history”. It caused the death of 11 men and injury to several others. “More than 150,000 barrels of crude oil gushed into the sea, every day, for almost 5 months and up to 68,000 square miles of the Gulf 's surface were covered” (1).