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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Responsibilities and Law Contents BP Company Info 3 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Event 4 Summary of the Deepwater Horizon Event 5 Stock price before and after Deepwater Horizon 7 Impact on Stakeholders 8 BP’s Oil Spills and Corporate Social Responsibility 9 Inadequate disclosure on the oil spill event 11 Recommendations for BP to get reputation back 13 Conclusion 14 BP Company Info BP is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London‚ United Kingdom. It is the third-largest
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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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Executive Summary The report investigates on how Royal Dutch Shell should reduce the issues of oil spill by utilizing two managerial functions which are leading and controlling. This problem is primarily due to the operational failures‚ such as equipment failure and human error. It is found that Shell has been engaged in solving issue that significantly disadvantageous for Shell. In response to these incidents‚ Shell was forced to solve these issues as soon as possible. This report includes investigation
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drilling to occur then one spill could wipe out quite a few of our beautiful beaches and end the vacations for years. Let’s start at the BP spill off the coast of Louisiana. That spill all started because the number three engine took in highly carbonated air and it mixed with the fuel mixture and blew up. When it blew up it killed all the generators which in turn stopped them from being able to cap the well and detach from it. There is an EDS system that the off shore oil rigs use to disconnect from
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Twin Lakes Mining Company Journal * Twin Lake mining Company‚ I represented the city of Tamarack in Minnesota. * There is serious problem between a city of Tamarack and the Twin Mining Company about few issues: Water‚ Air‚ Road conditions and taxes. * My Goal was to convince Twin Lake mining company to contribute with the city in all the government mandated clean ups and convince them that
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MC252 drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico caused the rig to sink and killed 11 workers. As the result‚ the oil began leaking into the Gulf creating the largest spill in American history to date. Over the course of 87 days an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil were released into the Gulf. Although research continues to determine the full extent of the damage‚ we know that this spill impacted wildlife‚ habitats‚ fishing communities‚ and commerce along the large coastal areas of Louisiana‚ Mississippi
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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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of their nature. The Response and Responsibility of Gulf Oil Spill BP’s management resulted in a oil spill arguing liability. Strategy was to avoid taking legal responsibility so management started finger pointing. BP’s factors that influenced planning Three factors that influence BP oil companies operational and contingency planning include‚ unexpected oil spills. Sometimes they cannot control things like floods‚ which can cause oil burst and affect the flow of the plan. The third factor is
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Deepwater Horizon Assignment On April 20th 2010 a BP licenses oil rig 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana exploded‚ killing 11 people. For three months millions of barrels of oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico killing sea life‚ altering the eco-system and affecting towns situated around the Gulf’s livelihood and quality of life. The Deepwater Horizon rig is responsible for the worst offshore oil spill in history. The corporation lost billions of dollars due to the disaster stemming for systematic
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