Thousands upon thousands of animals. Soaked head to toe, in thick black pollution. Dying. Why? Because a large profit oil company, decided to cut costs. Because they were more concerned with money lying within the waters, than the animals who call them their home. A selfish act, some would say, is what took place at BP. An issue that started off local, but lead to global repercussions, the “BP Oil Spill”, better known as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, began on April 10th, 2010, and lasted until September 19th, 2010, when the well was declared sealed. Over the course of the 5 month summer, 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gallons), were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill was estimated to be 31% larger in volume than the previously
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We use science to find the areas in which, the highest amount of oil, still remains. This way we understand what areas are inflicted and which areas we should watch out for. It has been about 5 years since the BP Oil Spill, and wildlife is still being effected, in extreme ways. The Dolphin population is dying off because of the effects. However, if we apply science to that aspect, where the inflicted population of dolphins is from. What waters we should keep an eye on. Even still to this day, it is also found that the oil rig itself, is still leaking into the Gulf. The fact that they never completely took care of the problem, is appalling in itself, but if we apply science to the issue, we will be able to possible stop the leaking all together. During the initial months following the oil spill, before it was plugged, science was all we had, helping us trying to plug the oil spill. BP had attempted a “top hat” approach in the early stages of stopping the spill, and took a bad turn. By June 3rd that top hat, was collecting close to 15,000 barrels of oil a day, which is three times early estimates. This let us know, how little we truly understood about the issue at hand. But through science and the mind of US Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, we finally found our solution to stopping the spill, (will go into complete detail of just how they did …show more content…
This oil spill, was completely BP’s fault. They made cost cutting decisions, probably in an attempt to increase cash flow, and because of this their equipment did not function properly, thus resulting in the deaths of thousands of animals, and over 5 years’ worth of efforts, towards the cleanup. It should be considered that, had BP not made these decisions, maybe this oil spill could’ve been prevented all together. But the ethics issue goes deeper than that. During the beginning of the oil spill, many scientists, both for BP and for the U.S., were scrambling in their efforts to find a solution. However BP would refuse to provide certain data to Chu’s team (Secretary of Energy), and gave none out to begin with, thus making the job of Chu’s team much harder. Chu’s team had to ask for very specific info, if they wanted BP to give it to them. It wasn’t until BP’s “top hat” method failed, that they began being more lenient with their information. So here we have an oil company, who has messed up, and is continuing to mess up, and yet can’t bring themselves to admit it. In the opinion of most American citizens, BP is not an ethical operation, in any
We use science to find the areas in which, the highest amount of oil, still remains. This way we understand what areas are inflicted and which areas we should watch out for. It has been about 5 years since the BP Oil Spill, and wildlife is still being effected, in extreme ways. The Dolphin population is dying off because of the effects. However, if we apply science to that aspect, where the inflicted population of dolphins is from. What waters we should keep an eye on. Even still to this day, it is also found that the oil rig itself, is still leaking into the Gulf. The fact that they never completely took care of the problem, is appalling in itself, but if we apply science to the issue, we will be able to possible stop the leaking all together. During the initial months following the oil spill, before it was plugged, science was all we had, helping us trying to plug the oil spill. BP had attempted a “top hat” approach in the early stages of stopping the spill, and took a bad turn. By June 3rd that top hat, was collecting close to 15,000 barrels of oil a day, which is three times early estimates. This let us know, how little we truly understood about the issue at hand. But through science and the mind of US Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, we finally found our solution to stopping the spill, (will go into complete detail of just how they did …show more content…
This oil spill, was completely BP’s fault. They made cost cutting decisions, probably in an attempt to increase cash flow, and because of this their equipment did not function properly, thus resulting in the deaths of thousands of animals, and over 5 years’ worth of efforts, towards the cleanup. It should be considered that, had BP not made these decisions, maybe this oil spill could’ve been prevented all together. But the ethics issue goes deeper than that. During the beginning of the oil spill, many scientists, both for BP and for the U.S., were scrambling in their efforts to find a solution. However BP would refuse to provide certain data to Chu’s team (Secretary of Energy), and gave none out to begin with, thus making the job of Chu’s team much harder. Chu’s team had to ask for very specific info, if they wanted BP to give it to them. It wasn’t until BP’s “top hat” method failed, that they began being more lenient with their information. So here we have an oil company, who has messed up, and is continuing to mess up, and yet can’t bring themselves to admit it. In the opinion of most American citizens, BP is not an ethical operation, in any