is rapidly becoming a crucial problem on Earth. The major causes of sea pollution are oil spills‚ toxic waste‚ and dumping of other harmful materials into the ocean. This pollution will directly affect the living organisms in the ocean and indirectly affect human’s health and resources. We‚ as humans‚ should learn more about these in order to have the knowledge on how to solve this problem effectively. Oil spill is perhaps the most publicly acknowledged cause of sea pollution. Large tanker accident
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the capsules from the market after a woman died from cyanide poisoning. Exxon on the other hand took a very long time to send aid for the oil spill in Alaska. Their chairman didn’t fly to Alaska until two weeks after the spill‚ instead they sent an untrained team to deal with these problems. This lead the public to believe that Exxon didn’t think the oil spill was a big deal. While Johnson & Johnson actually announced the suspension of their product‚ Exxon only communicated with the small town
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SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE Telus Corp. Nowadays many successful companies are making corporate social responsibility a key to business. Telus was selected to one of the Top 50 Socially Responsible Corporation in Canada that Maclean’s published in 2011. In response to the 2011 Alberta fires‚ the company provided free wireless calling‚ a stoppage on billing‚ long-distance calling cards‚ replacement cellphones and over 1‚600 comfort kits for relief workers and residents of Slave Lake (Jantzi-Sustainalytics
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Communities and Shareholders: The impact of how ExxonMobil manage their interaction Exxon-Mobil is the world’s largest privately owned multi-national oil and gas company (Skjaerseth 2003). For companies as large as ExxonMobil‚ which possess considerable capital resources and are able to exert considerable power and influence‚ society is increasingly demanding that they behave in a socially responsible manner (Diara‚ Alilo‚ and McGuire 2004). There is a growing expectation that companies will adopt
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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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Sound. Prince William Sound is a small isolated town in the outskirts of Alaska. The Exxon Valdez spilled over 38‚000 gallons into the waters of Prince William Sound. The toxins from the oil injured 33‚000 people and eventually killed 8‚000 Alaskan fishermen after years of suffering from side effects from the spill. The Valdez’s accident ending up costing Exxon 2.5 billon dollars in damages and went down as one of the most devastating environmental disasters but it is how Exxon choose to handle it
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Oil and gas production‚ drilling‚ and trading is a big issue in the United States. Currently‚ much of the oil we use comes from foreign sources. Many argue that we should reduce foreign oil dependency by reducing our consumption and by drilling for oil right here in the U.S. For approximately forty years‚ a debate has been brewing about oil exploration and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is 19‚000‚000 acres of land in northern Alaska‚
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Who I think is responsible for the ‘Rena Disaster’! ! The Rena Disaster was a oil spill disaster that happened off the coast of Tauranga in New Zealand on the 5th of October 2011. The crash was cause by the grounding of the Rena Ship on the Astrolable Reef at 17 knots. I think that the captain of the Rena (Mauro Balomaga) was the one responsible for the disaster. ! ! First of all‚ I think this because it was mostly the Captain’s decision to take the shortcut on the way to the Port
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Morality and Ethics (Exxon Case) As two members of our group are children of sea captains‚ the case of Exxon Valdez oil spill was extremely interesting for our team. It demonstrates that irresponsible behavior of people can lead to the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters of the past century. Multiple factors have been identified as contributing to the incident. In our group’s opinion‚ the most important are: the captain was drunk being on duty‚ the third mate failed to properly
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Exxon’s tanker ship‚ the Exxon Valdez‚ ran aground and spilled 10.8 million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound‚ the largest oil spill in Americas history. The effects were disastrous and damaged the ecosystem so terribly that it is still suffering the effects over 25 years later. Although the effects of hydraulic fracturing were manifested that day‚ ExxonMobil continued to extract oil‚ resulting in more oil spills and more damage to the biosphere and safety to all those living in it. In short
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