Eric Davis Soc 120 Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility Joe Niehaus October 3, 2010 Environmental Ethical Issues History According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (2008) environmental ethics began to come to the surface in 1970s. The environmentalists started urging philosophers who were involved with environmental groups to do something about environmental ethics. Most academic activity in the 1970s was spent debating the Lynn White thesis and the tragedy
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Chemical Process d. Need for Bioremediation 2. Bioremediation a. Seeding with Microbial Cultures b. Environmental Modification IV. Recent Applications of Bioremediation Techniques and their Effectiveness 1. Amoco Cadiz 2. Exxon Valdez 3. Mega Borg 4. Apex Barges 5. Arabian Gulf War V. Conclusion Bibliography Bioremediation Methods for Oil Spills Abstract. The increasing number of marine oil spills asks for effective solutions for the environment. Bioremediation
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On April 20 a wellhead on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform blew out in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 40 miles southeast of the Louisiana coastline. What BP had initially claimed would be a spill with “minimal impact”, 69 days later now constitutes the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Today the well is conservatively estimated to be leaking at a rate of 1,900,000–3,000,000 litres per day—though several expert estimates based on footage of the spill suggest the actual
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Oil Companies: Where Should the Money be Spent? Jerrilynn N. Stanwood, Stephen Myers, Min Kim, Josue Fernandez, and Angel Paz California State University Long Beach Introduction Our case study was on major oil corporations and how they constantly advertise their business in the media but never present their mistakes to the public eye unless they just so happen to hit newspapers or television. Oil companies should always be concerned in making sure that all their equipment is running correctly
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Baseline Group #1 PWS Geography and Baseline The Exxon Valdez oil spill and the effects on Prince Williams Sound and the surrounding areas is the main focus of this first topic. The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred on Good Friday in 1989. The oil spill had a major toll on the environment when it occurred. Many birds, sea otters, and fish died, and many beaches and were covered with the oil. There were some people that compared the Valdez oil spill to Chernobyl, Bhopal, and Hiroshima. Many people
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an estimate due to the refusal of BP to allow accurate measures of the spilt oil to be obtained by professionals (Sakashita). Although we have been dealing with oil spills for years, until the BP oil spill the worst oil disaster had been the Exxon Valdez spill in 1979. This spill, also in the Gulf of Mexico, was responsible for launching the huge controversy over the safety of oil rigs. This famous oil spill dumped around 11 million gallons of oil (U.S.). The
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Exxon Valdez and Prince William Sound Case Keller Graduate School of Management – Online AC573 Anthony Mucheru Instructor – Frank Pidgeon November 2011 Shortly after midnight on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil. At the time of the grounding, the vessel had departed from normal shipping lanes to avoid ice in the water and had failed to make a corrective turn in time to avoid the submerged
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Team assignment Personal Injury, The impact of BP oil disaster to local people Fisherpersons where immediately affected as they have no other sources of getting income as immediate halted by the closure of fishing in the ocean resulting from the spill which courses great impact on fisherpersons, and there dependent who depend on seafood. Ninety percent of the fisherpersons do not learn any other trade or even have any other skill work to do, where face with great impact from the disaster. House
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As oil continues to rise to the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, BP’s public reputation continues to fall. Its name is becoming synonymous with this environmental disaster much in the way that Exxon’s name was tainted in the wake of the Valdez tanker catastrophe in 1989. This is especially ironic given the recent effort that BP has made to brand itself as a “green” company that balances oil and gas exploration with the development of alternative energy technology. I believe that the problem BP is
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experiences this kind of manmade disaster ever again. 1. New estimates show the undersea well has spilled betweendwarf those of BP, who claimed the spill had only released 11 million gallons to date, and mean that the Gulf leak is far bigger than Exxon Valdez, making it the worst spill in American history. 2. The National Wildlife Federation reports that already more than 150 threatened or endangered sea turtles are dead. And 316 sea birds, mostly brown pelicans and northern gannets, have been found
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