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    Bp Oil Spill Essay

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    On April 20, 2010, BP’s oil drilling rig caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Mexico. Throughout the following months, the company attempted to keep everyone from stockholders to environmental activists updated with their cleanup efforts. The mass amounts of oil that spilled into the Gulf took many years to cleanup. Most of BP’s updates came from press releases, along with speaking to reporters about their cleanup efforts. The idea of writing press releases for a company allows the public to stay

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    retrieved minor amounts of crude oil from holes in the ground. It was not until the mid-nineteenth century when Colonel Edwin Drake discovered the how to retrieve even larger quantities of oil. He realized that, by drilling a hole deep enough, greater quantities of oil could be obtained. Colonel Edwin Drake established the very first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania. After Colonel Edwin Drake’s discovery, the search for oil followed. Through this quest, many oil reserves were located all over North

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    The Exxon-Valdez oil spill occurred on March 24, 1989, when the tanker Exxon Valdez, transporting oil from Valdez, Alaska to Los Angeles, California, ran aground on the Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The root cause of the accident was the captain. After passing through Valdez Narrows, pilot Murphy left the vessel and Captain Hazelwood took over the wheelhouse. It was Captain Hazelwood who made the decision to steer the ship off its normal path in order to avoid a run in with ice. For

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    the instances of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, the Kuwait Oil Fires, the Hurricane Katrina devastation and the Sydney Tar Ponds, this paper will develop an argument supporting the idea that governments should be given the responsibility to handle environmental hazards that result from the prior use of resources as well as environmental regulations that are no longer up to standard. Arguments/Examples I. The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill To begin, the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill was a man-made environmental disaster

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    Gulf Oil Spill Essay

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    Oil Dispersant Compound Persists After Gulf Spill The Gulf oil spill happened on 20-April-2010 was the worst oil spill in U.S history. The BP pipe leak oil and gas on the ocean floor with approximately around 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Oil and water can’t mix together since oil density is lighter compare to water therefore oil float on the top of surface water. The oil floated on the surfcace and formed together to become the large oil slicks. These large slicks covered water surface which

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    While oil spill response and cleanups help the economy by creating jobs, oil companies should take better precautions to make sure oil spills do not happen. Oil spills can be dangerous to not only the environment but also to animals and people as well. Another major effect of oil spills are that they are highly expensive, costing up to billions of dollars, estimated, to clean up. While oil companies try their best to prevent these tragedies from happening, there are multiple things they could do

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    responses were slow to the oil spill because it was off of the coast. On March 25th, crews transferred the oil that was not spilled to the Exxon Baton Rouge tanker to be brought back to shore. Authorities attempted to burn the oil nears the spill site, while aircrafts applied dispersants to break up the oil in the area. Sadly, there were not enough of these dispersants available to affect an oil spill this vast. On March 26th, a winter storm in the area spread the oil over 100 square miles, where

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    April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon Macondo oil well drilling platform started the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history, releasing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico” (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, n.d., para.1). This tragedy didn’t only have a devastating impact on the environment; eleven personnel assigned to the Deepwater Horizon Macondo rig lost their lives, either in the initial oil well explosion or the subsequent fires that resulted. The

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    Oil Spills, their impact on the environment, and the great loss of human and marine life are a severe problem for the oil industry, one which needs to be prevented in the future. Oil production and transportation at sea has grown to inconceivable levels. Increasingly, as a society, we are having larger and more numerous oil spills which in turn cause an increase in danger for marine life and human life, even though laws and regulations regarding the extraction and transfer of oil are becoming increasingly

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    Melendez Professor Mary McThomas FJS/PHIL 210 December 7, 2015 Oils Spills In the United States oil consumption is an everyday occurrence, for every citizen. Our country without oil would not be able to function properly within all aspects of life. Our political, transportation and economics systems would all encounter drastic affects if there were no oil to transform into petroleum. Due to our huge dependency on petroleum products, oil companies like British Petroleum (BP), Exxon Mobil, and Saudi

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