Exxon Valdez oil spill

Oil Spills and How They Affect The Environment Oil spills, no matter how small or large, effect the worlds environment by their destroying and poisoning any habitat they come in contact with, mainly the water though. These spills can be devastating because they disrupt what we know as the food chain. The food chain starts with producers who are ate by small animals which are ate by larger and larger animals until the top predator is reached, humans. Oddly enough…

conducting research on the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the further analysis into problems, decisions, and potential problems matrices allowed for a better-rounded look at the overall issue. Execution of this problem was poorly constructed similar to the Deepwater Horizon spill. The massive implications that come from such an event as an oil spill go way beyond money and resources lost. It truly affects a vast array of life and the standard of living around the area of the oil spill for…

of the worst recorded oil spills occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska (Seitel, 2011, p.100). A 987-foot tanker from Exxon Mobil Corp., the Exxon Valdez, spilled 260,000 barrels of oil after the intoxicated ship captain “ran aground on a reef 25 miles southwest of the port of Valdez” (Seitel, 2011, p.101). The oil spill damaged over 1,300 square miles of coast line and caused the death of various sea life, including over 4,000 Alaskan sea otters (Seitel, 2012, p.101). Exxon Mobil’s public…

the time Exxon believe the cost of improving their tankers would be more costly versus a spill cleanup. They were wrong. They did not factor in getting caught and fined for their unethical behavior. Exxon's analysis of the costs of an oil spill versus the cost of improving their tankers seems to have been reasonable at the time it was taken. The social costs of killing birds and fish was expected to be low. In the future the estimated cost will be alot higher because of the Exxon Spill.…

stopping the oil spill, and almost 6 months to permanently seal the leaking well. It is estimated that a total of 4.4m barrels of oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico during the nearly three months the well leaked freely into the ocean. The cost of cleanup has been an outrageous $40bn. This disaster will continue to affect wildlife for years to come. Fishing was banned in the area, causing a shortage of fish in the markets. This in turn caused the price to go through the roof. Due to the…

The leaked oil spread over thousands of square miles across the Gulf of Mexico. Like the Exxon Valdez spill, dispersants were also pumped and spread over the leak to help break up the oil in the area. In May, oil began to contaminate beaches in Louisiana. Here it was manually removed, which proved to be very difficult in the marshes and estuaries. In June, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida beaches became affected by the oil. Total, around 1,100 miles of the coast was polluted, and three years…

shipping vessel spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into the ocean (Atlas, 2011). The amount of crude oil that was spilled into the ocean affected the ecosystem and the animals that live within that system. Protecting the shorelines from the heavy crude oil from the leaking vessel was a major responsibility of the clean-up. The clean-up process was a very difficult one during this time due to the cold weather and the heaviness of the crude oil, dispersants were not used due to the State of…

enacted into law. Many would agree that this act should have been proposed a long time ago, and the fact that it has taken this long for such a bill to be introduced in Congress shows the complacency the federal government has towards the effects of oil spills on the deteriorating health and biodiversity of our…

Exxon Valdez Table of Contents Introduction: (Skinner, S.K. and Reilly, W.K., 1989)[1] A catastropic event taken place on March 24th 1989 at Prince William Sound, Alaska. An Oil Tanker known as Exxon Valdez owned by Exxon Shipping company was transporting 53.09451 million US gallons of crude oil. At 12:04 am the ship struck the Prince William Sound, Bligh reef. This caused 10.8 million US gallons of crude oil to spill hereby creating a huge environmental disaster and it was known that…

Before the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 the U.S. had no liability on oil spills. The problem was still reoccurring even though over 10,000 oil spills were occurring every year around the country. It wasn’t until the major Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska that it was shown that there was no protocol or organization to immediately and effectively clean up the large spill. In the Conference report for the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, it is stated that there was a great increase on the liability of oil…