Ethical Scenario

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Ethical Scenario

I have chosen to write about “To Drill or Not to Drill”. Within this paper, it will describe the relationship between critical thinking and ethics, the moral responsibility of all participant, the stakeholders moral failings, the ideals or obligations that are in conflict, and the best outcome. In “To Drill or Not to Drill” it is about Wyoming’s Upper Green River Valley’s wildlife, basically having to compete with gas and oil companies for the land. The wildlife have to pass through this valley on their long migration to their winter pastor in the High Desert. Within the land that the wildlife has to travel contains roughly 20 trillion cubic feet of gas miles beneath the surface. Many companies want to drill the area for the natural gas. According to the transcript, requests for drilling have went from 75 applications in 1998 to 300 in 2003. The moral responsibility of the participants is to allow companies to put the drill rigs on the land where it won’t disturb the path of migration for the wildlife. The moral failings is that the wildlife, during their migration, have to cross many, many fences and also cross highways and in some cases some of the wildlife don’t make it. The conflict is that this land has a lot of wildlife and the placement of the drill rigs disturbs that and can cause the wildlife to change their patterns and move to another area are outraged because the extraction method that is used has polluted the water. The best outcome would be to move the drill rigs to a more environmentally acceptable area and place restrictions onto the companies. The people that cover the land are trying to make sure that the wildlife in the area are not disturbed or have to migrate to a new area. They also are taking the residents of the area into account so that they can live in a safe unpolluted environment.

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