BP

Consider the BP oil spill from 2010, which cost BP a whopping $18.7 billion. Seven years after that tragedy, the Gulf region is making vast improvements, and wildlife has rebounded. In no way should anyone advocate destroying the Earth. However, mistakes and accidents are a fact of modern life. In the case of environmental and toxic disasters, the mechanisms in place at the governmental and corporate levels to guard against occurrences and punish entities for their errors are sufficient.…

FACTORS The BP oil spill directly affected the health of the environment in very harmful ways. In an account of the environmental losses regarding the BP oil spill, a famous writer for the Washington Post, Kevin Nance (2015), illustrates a reflection of the consequences in the wake of this disaster: “We remember the giant oil slick burning on the water, blackening the beaches, clogging the marshlands, choking and killing the fish and wildlife.” Many forms of wildlife suffered throughout this…

BP stands for British Petroleum and this company is 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…

1. First: How do you think the BP Deepwater Horizon incident has impacted the “green” movement in American business? Has it re-energized it, or did it have no impact at all, due to BP’s skillful use of the press release? I think BP Deepwater Horizon incident impacted American Business, because of the oil spill incident, it will affect the maritime industry. Such as, fishing, marine transportation and petroleum sector. It leads the negative effects for these industries. I believed it has…

The BP oil spill was a very tragic environmental disaster that occurred recently which resulted from poor engineering judgement. There were several ethical issues involved with the BP oil spill that made it such a terrible and devastating disaster. However, the disaster began with one single decision that should not have been made. The environmental ramifications that were caused by the spill are still seen along the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico. If ethical issues of the BP oil company were…

livescience.com. The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010 spilled 205.8 million gallons of oil and 225,000 tons of methane into the Gulf of Mexico, proven by biologicaldiversity.org. An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. Since so much oil is being released into the ocean, should we really risk clean water to oil? Bernie Sanders once said “We all remember the BP oil…

and was adopted by other countries. The British psychological society (BPS) published its first code of ethics in 1983. Later on, globalization created the need for international ethical standards and shared principles (Allan & Love, 2010). There are four main ethical principles mentioned in the BPS code of ethics and conduct: respect, competence, responsibility and integrity. Those are complemented with the principles of the BPS code of human research ethics (2014), which are:…

the area they include ecological footprint, anthropocentric, instrumental value and intrinsic value. I’ll be using the BP oil spill and its rebranding of the company as a case study that demonstrates a graphic design ethical issue but mainly focuses on the broader environmental issues. The spill has impacted on the ocean’s ecosystem and was a controversial issue due to the way BP tried to resolve the catastrophic event. Environmental ethics discuss the relationship of the boundaries and…

Introduction In the present decade alone, there have been 47 oil spills around the world with at least 500,000 tons spilled. Many coastal economies are heavily dependent on ecosystem services such as tourism and fisheries. It is estimated that the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill will have caused the loss of $8.7 billion in revenue and 22,000 jobs for the commercial fishing industry in the Gulf. (Natural Resources Defense Council, 2015) New methods of preventing oil spills and reducing…

discussions have been over the VW controversy with their faulty emission standards and others like the BP oil spill. They have been widely discussed in ethical settings and are huge environmental dilemmas. The articles too have been interesting to read, some of it is review from undergrad but it is to refresh on some of the concepts they discuss like moral standards and…