Exxon Valdez oil spill

By May 2016, Greenpeace calculated that 39,000 tons of salmon washed up near the island of Chiloe in Chile. Six months later the government and the public have yet to reconcile their beliefs on the cause of the incident. According to Soberanes and Perez’ article, “The salmon crisis in Chile’s Chiloe Island,” government officials blame a “red tide” of algae as the main cause of the fish kill, completely independent of government authorization for the salmon industry to dump 9,000 tons of dead…

In this Unit 9 Assignment, I will be preparing a policy brief on offshore energy planning and management. This brief will discuss three options such as the complexity of overlapping statutes through regulatory agencies, oil spill prevention and response, and the efforts to reduce environmental impacts through research and conclusions about the predicted effects of these policy options. A final recommendation of which policy option would be best utilized to ensure success. According to the…

The Gulf Oil spill, otherwise known as the Deep Horizon/BP spill, is the largest spill in all of american history. Throughout the 87 days that the well stood open it leaked over 200 million gallons of crude oil, and damaging about 16,000 miles of coastline, despite the collective efforts of around 30,000 people and the use of over 5.5 million feet of boom, a floating barrier used in an attempt to stop oil from spreading. (Smithsonian, “Gulf Oil Spill”) It has affected the wildlife and habitats…

now widely known for its devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil rig 52 miles south-east of Venice, Louisiana exploded on April 20, 2010 in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico igniting a fireball visible from up to 40 miles away. The BP oil spill is and depending on the effects of the oil on the gulf coast may forever be seen as one of the largest, man-made disasters in the United States. Over 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled from the Deepwater…

environmental disaster in US history, considered 10 times bigger than Exxon Valdez. Over a period of 86 days (from April to June), about 4.9million barrels of crude was pumped into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The impact of the spill is still being studied. During this period, 57.5 square miles of gulf waters were closed to fishing and other commercial activities. Just top put it in context, the estimated amount of oil spill is enough to fill 311 Olympic size swimming pools. BP’s initial…

“Leaders in a crisis are forced to operate in full public view, with the media and others positioned to report and critique their actions” (James & Woothen, 2005). Especially with the widespread propagation of bloggers and social media outlets, Voulgaris was faced with dealing with a media that was changing with the time. To manage the perceptions of a changing demographic, she assigned staff to specifically handling the social media circles and she countered rumors and speculation with…

Environmental Issue Marine pollution through oil Transportation of oil by sea makes up a large part of the international distribution of oil, but in case of a spill, the effects on the marine ecosystem are devastating. While the demand for oil and the consumption is continually rising, the safety measurements currently in place are not enough to avoid major damage to marine ecosystems. One of the most devastating spills, the spilling of the Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound, Alaska, still…

production of oil and gas drilling platforms. Most of these near misses and issues can be traced back to a common set of characteristics relating to system defects, safety violations that went ignored, human factors and a lack of organizational integrity (Kurtz, 2013). Comparisons from experts in two larger oil spill events, Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon, found mutual failures in both occurrences relating to risk management (Haycox, 2012). Industry History The Exxon Valdez oil tanker…

Brent Spar was first installed in Brent Field in June 1976 (Kirby 1998). This oil platform is designed as a huge floating production stage facility and owned by Shell and Esso for business purposes which including oil storage and tanker loading. After serving for 15 years, Shell decided to abandon the platform by dumping it into deep water sea with the approval of the UK Government (Kirby 1998). In 1995, Shell announced the granted dispose plan to the world. However, this has been strongly…

THE SEVESO DISASTER INTRO The Seveso Disaster was an environmental travesty that occurred on July 10th 1976 due to a chemical manufacturing plant, which released massive amounts of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) into the atmosphere (Lallanilla, 2017). This massive release caused not only environmental implications but health and safety implications as well. Through my research I will deduct what happened at that chemical plant outside of Seveso that caused such a disaster. Further…