prior) need be transparent‚ honest and free from duplicity as such undermines leading to lack of trust. It is the responsibility of all organizations to report a crisis in a timely fashion with a take action approach from leadership‚ unlike the Exxon Valdez case placing blame‚ not expressing concern or compassion for stakeholders. Organizations are said to restore its legitimacy through communicating‚ as all elements of an organization affect a crisis no matter the significance as this describes
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Case 1: The Italian Shoe Company The Italian Shoe Company is a New York‚ family owned company now in its sixth generation. The company started in 1823 making shoes for men and women based on designs that were popular in the growing Italian community of New York. In the early years‚ it struggled to survive. But over the years‚ particularly from the start of the twentieth century‚ it has prospered. The sixth generation owner -Adamo Pedone- is a very wealthy person. Currently‚ the company produces
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Paper #4 12/4/2012 Article: BP stops oil leak in Gulf of Mexico for first time since April Author: Suzanne Goldenberg Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/16/bp-oil-spill-leak-stopped The safety issue that I chose was the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The BP oil spill was the largest oil spill in United States history. This oil spill occurred due to a methane leak‚ and an explosion‚ causing a fire aboard an offshore oil drilling rig. The explosion damaged the
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The controversial methods and actions of oil companies to extract/transport their products‚ such as fracking‚ have to be banned and prevented immediately and companies must find more efficient and environmentally-friendly ways to extract/transport these natural resources in order to keep the environment safe. With methods such as fracking being used to excavate the oil that is used today‚ damage done to the environment and different species of animals is inevitable with controversial methods. As
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for the scope of daily operations. It was quite reasonable because at the very beginning stage of drafting the related guidelines‚ not every experience or assumed circumstancs were fully considered in the daily operations. Unfortunately‚ after the spill happened‚ several reports have pointed out that BP ’s internal problems were the main causes of the disaster. In 2009‚ the Occupational Safety and Health Administration had put a record largest fine of $87 million upon BP’s company. In the investigation
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because the world leading oil related technology. WE AKNESSES - BP made a huge loss in 2010 owing to the oil spills in Gulf of Mexico. The damage to BP’s reputation has been significant compared to other oil companies. - BP seldom has activities in the Middle East‚ and less confirmed oil reserves than the state-controlled oil & companies e.g. Saudi Aramco. OPPOR TUNI TIES - There is an increasing demand for gas and oil as well as the refined and secondary products of oil in developing countries
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pollution due to oil spills; consequently‚ drilling also leads to the injection of watery liquids into the wells which are later distributed as drilling mud that often cause their own toxic pollution. Furthermore‚ the transporting of such oil by tanker ships have the potential to cause great disasters resulting from oil spills. In addition‚ using pipelines and trucks are also not the safest methods of transport due to their ability to break or be involved in accidents. Crude oil has a composition
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BP Disaster at Sea In 2010 the nation was dealt the worst oil spill in the history of the USA‚ the BP oil rig Deep water horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. This major catastrophe destroyed some people‚ millions of aquatic wildlife‚ birds and the reputation of BP all in one fatal event. What caused this mind blowing disaster to happen? We will take a look
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the first species to become endangered because of global warming and climate change. One of the greatest factors of climate change is caused by the greenhouse effect. This is due to human activity such as burning gasoline to drive vehicles‚ burning oil‚ coal or wood to produce electricity for heating and cooling and burning forests to clear land. The greenhouse effect has the potential to reach levels of heat that our world has never seen before; our polar bears live in the arctic where they rely
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4647 incidents resulted in the spill of approximately 2‚369‚470 barrels of oil into the environment. In addition‚ between 1997 and 2001‚ Nigeria also recorded a total number of 2‚097 oil spill incidents. Nigeria’s largest spill was an offshore well-blow out in January 1980 when an estimated 200‚000 barrels of oil (8.4million US gallons) spilled into the Atlantic Ocean from an oil industry facility and that damaged 340 hectares of mangrove (Nwilo and Badejo‚ 2005). Oil endangers fish hatcheries in coastal
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