UV0100 EXXONMOBIL AND THE CHAD CAMEROON PIPELINE In November 1999‚ ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond faced the potential collapse of the Chad/Cameroon Oil Pipeline project on which the company was about to embark. Both Royal Dutch/Shell and France’s TotalFinaElf‚ ExxonMobil’s partners in the Pipeline Consortium‚ had just withdrawn‚ citing environmental concerns among other things and leaving its future temporarily in doubt. This withdrawal delighted many environmental groups long opposed to the pipeline
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and odour control of tiles‚ wood or concrete. The microorganisms penetrate the cracks in the above mentioned materials‚ using the grease/spills as a food source and removing them. Third‚ bioaugmentation is used in surface cleanup and remediations which involves cleaning materials such as asphalt‚ concrete‚ metal and other equipment that comes in contact with oil‚ gasoline and grease. This is useful in factories and industries to maintain a clean and safe work environment. Bioaugmentation is
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Did you know that 1 oil spills can kill thousands and thousands and thousands of pengeins and animals in wildlife.In the south atlantic ocean there was a oil spill that had more than 40‚000 penguins injured. When people heard about it they came to help. In the passage “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” a lot of people came to help capture the penguins that were covered in oil to help them. They took them in a warehouse and had to force feed the penguins by prying their beaks open and shoving dead fish
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Tillerson faces this challenge. As C.E.O. of the largest publicly traded oil company in the world with the highest posted record profit ever in 2006 ( $39.5 billion) and revenues in excess of #377 billion‚ (www.boston.com) Tillerson faces constant scrutiny from environmental groups‚ and high expectations for profit from shareholders. Not to mention the looming memory that he is now the head of a company that caused the single worst oil spill in United States history and almost destroyed a previously pristine
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Affirmative Case I affirm the resolution Resolved: Developing countries should prioritize environmental protection over resource extraction when the two are in conflict. Environmental protection is something that will; to just benefit the developing countries‚ but everyone in the world and generations in the future. Therefore‚ my value is Quality of Life and my criterion is Utilitarianism. Contention 1: Environmental destruction causes extinction. Mankind finds itself engaged in what Prince
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bendo bendy Course: International Environmental law and Biodiversity Questions: Oil and gas exploitation ’ ’A paradox of plenty ’ ’ A Lesson and a challenge for multinational corporations and the indigenous people in a ’ ’new ’ ’ Arctic Akureyri 26/02/2012 Answer: Over the past years‚there has been a shift by oil and gas companies to Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR).[1]CSR is a self regulatory policy whereof businesses
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Chris Intro to Business 9/22/10 BP and Ethics This case is about the safety problems faced by BP‚ the third-largest oil and gas producer in the world. On March 23‚ 2005‚ an explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery resulted in one of the most serious workplace accidents in the US. An investigation by The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) uncovered many safety lapses at the Texas City refinery. BP was accused of endangering its workers by compromising on process safety due
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British Petroleum[pic] Executive Summary The history of BP was set in motion as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Persia in 1901. William Knox D’Arcy‚ an English entrepreneur hired George Reynolds‚ a geologist and explorer to dig Persia for oil. Reynolds could smell natural gas and was most certain they would hit oil. After several years and after D’Arcy had spent nearly all his savings and on the verge of losing his homes‚ he gave Reynolds one last attempt
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Slide 1 57 spills with volumes estimated at ³ 11‚000 MTs since mid-1960s Exxon Valdez is smallest of this group‚ but is most well know for coastal impacts 2 largest ‘spills’ are multiple events during recent armed conflicts Persian Gulf War in 1991 Chechnyan insurrection in 2000 72% are from tankers 7% each from wells and storage tanks 3% pipelines and cargo vessels 1 lone refinery Although Valdez is #57 on this list‚ it probably top 5-10 in environmental damage and #1 political
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References: British Petroleum. (2010) Retrieved May 26‚ 2010‚ from http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=3&contentId=2006926 Cleveland‚ C.‚ (2010). Exxon Valdez oil spill. Encyclopedia of Earth. Retrieved June 2‚ 2010 from http://www.eoearth.org/article/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill Environmental Protection Agency. (2010) Retrieved May 31‚ 2010‚ from http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/index.html Herron‚ J. (2010‚ June 3). Two ratings
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