I do not believe that hydraulic fracking is good for the environment because it puts toxic waste into the ground‚ contaminates water supplies and the accidental spills lead to much devastation‚ and even our groundwater gets contaminated. Toxic waste from the hydraulic fracking is one of the worst things that is happening as of right now. Fracturing fluid chemicals are known to cause cancer and they sometimes use the fracturing fluid for flowback. The flowback of fracturing enters the air easily
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by Steven Seagal‚ about Alaskans concerning towards a big oil company that manufacture in Alaska when the big amount of oil spilled in
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OIL SPILL IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO The Petrotrin oil spill was a series of oil spills that transpired on the island of Trinidad and Tobago. There were a total of eleven oil spills that took place in December 2013. The first spill began when the 16-inch sea line No 10‚ operated by the Trinidad’s national oil company‚ Petrotrin‚ ruptured at the bottom of the Gulf of Paria near the company’s Pointe-a-Pierre refinery. It was originally reported as a single oil spill near the southwestern
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Gulf oil disaster‚ wildlife managers‚ rescue crews scientists and researchers saw many immediate impacts of the oil impacting wildlife. Oil coated birds’ feathers‚ causing birds to lose their buoyancy and the ability to regulate body temperature. Mammals ingested oil causing internal bleeding‚ sea turtles covered in oil‚ dead and dying sea coral. 3. Many humans experienced respiratory problems he developed during the cleanup of the BP oil spill. People can be exposed to the chemicals in oil by breathing
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Commission on the BP Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report in January 2011 to the President of the United States indicating that the April 20th‚ 2011 Deep Water Horizon’s explosion and the resulting oil spill at the Macondo well was a foreseeable and preventable disaster. The Commission’s report indicated that a number of easily identifiable mistakes by British Petroleum‚ Transocean‚ and Halliburton ultimately led to the devastating oil spill which lasted 87 days and dumped
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Introduction In this report I will be explain and evaluating the impact of the BP oil spill to their stakeholders. D1:1 BP oil spill The BP oil rig explosion was the second worst disaster in the U.S history‚ it resulted in the death of 11 employees and seriously injured 16 others‚ this resulted in one of the largest oil spills in the history of the world‚ this resulted in the Gulf of Mexico waters being covered in oil which killed thousands of animal life in the area and had a huge affect on the
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The first chapter discusses the basics of financial management. How critical is financial decision to social welfare? Reflect on the oil spill disaster in the gulf. Is it all about making money? Financial decisions are extremely critical to social welfare. Many individuals have the state of mind that emphasizes the belief of how social welfare can be pursued through exercising one’s choice and making provisions to obtain the means to be financially stable. The world is increasingly becoming
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Deepwater Horizon well exploded‚ sending oil gushing for three months into the gulf. The explosion killed eleven crewmembers and is probably the greatest environmental disaster the United States has faced. Scientific estimates put the amount of oil that was being discharged from the broken well at above 1‚470‚000 U.S. gallons per day. On July 15‚ 2010 BP successfully stopped the flow of oil from the wellhead‚ after spilling 190 million gallons of oil into the gulf over a period of three months
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voice. Human encroachment can have its benefits but it can also have its disasters that can result in the loss of species. Take the drilling in the Artic; some argue it can potentially cause an oil spill like the spill that happened off the Gulf of Mexico. If environmentalists are correct‚ oil spilling will cost millions of dollars to cleanup as well as a hazard to people and species. However‚ the Obama administration plans to move forwards. In order to create a balance among the competing
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1. The aspects of BP’s ethical culture that could have contributed to the Gulf Coast oil spill disaster include: * The company tried to assure concerned stakeholders that it took environmental concerns seriously‚ but BP’s actions have not always concided with its words. BP has engaged in numerous instances of questionable behavior including fraud‚ environmental‚ and ethical transgressions clearly demonstrate that the company has a history of disregarding the well-being of stakeholders. The
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