publicly traded international oil and gas company. The claim that they are providing energy that helps underpin growing economies and improve living standards around the world. However it is well remembered the great catastrophe that was created by the Exxon Valdez in the Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989. At that time the company tanker spilled 11 million gallons of crude after a human error. The captain of the ship was under the influence of alcohol. After the spill the company didn’t respond
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when extracting energy resources. Humans still need energy to function in day to day life as well as to keep global markets and the economy going‚ so it is beneficial and necessary to obtain it‚ and with the USA alone importing 10 million barrels of oil a day‚ new sources need to be discovered and recovered. However‚ there are controversial issues when it comes to energy. It is an expensive and complex process to extract resources from the ground and can have damaging effects on the environment‚ particularly
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of the Exxon Valdez Good Friday oil spill. Questions come to mind on what the senior executives of Exxon were thinking when the news was delivered on that fateful day. Exxon Corporation would never be the same after the morning of March 24‚ 1989‚ and Lawrence G. Rawl would never be seen the same after his morning cup of coffee: “The Exxon Valdez‚ a 987-foot tanker […] ran aground on a reef 25 miles southwest of the port of Valdez. The resulting rupture caused a spill of 260‚000 barrels […]” (Seitel
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the world’s leading petroleum and petrochemical company and also the largest refiner and marketer of petroleum products. Its history began with the establishment of Standard Oil Co. in 1870. Later in 1911 it breaks up into 34 companies as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision‚ two of them being Jersey Standard and Standard Oil Co. of New York (Socony). The former was known for the trade name Esso until it changed its name to Exxon Corporation. The latter changed its name to Mobil. In 1999‚ both
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Tselmeg Prutha Pathak Roshni Patel Doctor Oya Culpan BA 364Y October 18th‚ 2012 McDonald’s: The Coffee spill Heard ‘Round the World* Summary The case Stella Liebeck v. McDonald is one of the most talked about consumer lawsuit‚ sparking interest in people of not only the United States‚ but across the globe. Those who have studied the case in details pity the‚ at the time‚ 79 years old Stella Leibeck and those who are have only studied the synopsis of this case‚ find her lawsuit outrageous
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In 1987‚ a Conrail engineer‚ who had been smoking marijuana‚ caused train collision in which 16 passengers were killed and 176 people were injured. Also‚ in 1989 the Exxon Valdez accident‚ Captain Joseph Hazelwood announced the worst oil spill in US history. There was huge loss of animal life and destruction to economic and social fabric in Alaska. Alcohol was partly responsible for this tragedy. Such accidents caused the Department of Transportation to test employees in safety sensitive transportation
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from around the world. The Biopsychosocial Perspective combines all three fields to be able to study how psychological‚ biological and sociological all Interact with each other. A family tree also known as a genogram was made of a family using the BPS model. The psycho‚ bio‚ and social traits of the family were outlined on a color coded key. One thing that became vivid right away was that there are several traits that the family had in common. Traits being passed in a family are known as intergenerational
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We will go through the BP business context and culture‚ safety aspect‚ organization capability‚ responsiveness and risk assessment aspects of their ethical culture‚ result from the management and caused the disaster. BP Business Context and ethical culture: From the BP management employer aspects‚ they are not follow some mechanical level‚ safety procedure over and ignored which required by Act (e.g. Clean Air Act) over 8 year for their production. At the end the huge explosion occurred in March
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BP – The $40billion Safety Culture Vacuum On March 23rd 2005 a huge explosion at BP’s Texas oil refinery killed 15 people and injured more than 180. Most were its own staff. The refinery had suffered safety problems before. The previous year two workers died when scalded by super-heated water that escaped from a high-pressure pipe. The British media focused on the effect of the 2005 blast: the price of oil rose by several $s a barrel. In Texas‚ however‚ the local media were outraged by ‘yet
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Monsanto: Q1. Does Monsanto maintain an ethical culture than can effectively respond to various stakeholders? I believe Monsanto makes an effort to have an ethical culture and for the most part they succeed. The bribery issues in Indonesia‚ within their own company‚ in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s were reported to the Department of Justice by Monsanto. This level of corporate governance is something I think many large corporations would not do. The farmers‚ who are primary stakeholders because
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