Exxon Valdez oil spill

The amazing penguin rescue and The seabird chronicle According to “The amazing penguin rescue” and “The seabird chronicle”, the oil spills are hurting more than 41,000 little penguins. When the penguins were getting sick in the oil spills tons of thousands of people started helping to save the penguins. “The amazing penguin rescue” and “The seabird chronicle” have similarities and differences such as the conflict and how the setting creates a specific mood of the story. One similarity…

Analysis o What lead to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster? The popular oil company known as BP publicly prided itself on the company’s commitment to safety and the environment; however, shifts in leadership roles giving individuals more power caused the company to choose a less costly and more time friendly method of securing the rig for the drillings. This method ultimtely came at a huge cost to the environment as the largest marine oil spill to ever occur in U.S. waters. o One the of the…

Oil Spillage A devastated man-made environmental disaster is an oil spillage in the ocean . An oil spill is a release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into environment due to human activity like boats above oil pipes or rigs and its a form of pollution. Other form of oil spillage is marine oil spillage ,where oil is release into the ocean or coastlines. Oil spills is a release of crude oil from tankers, pipelines offshore platforms,drilling rigs. Spills may take months or years to clean up…

Why is it so difficult to remove oil from bird feathers? Oil affects birds by coating their plumage in sticky, greasy slime. Once oil covers the feathers, they will mat and misalign the tiny barbs that keep the feathers properly positioned. Oil is difficult to remove because it requires a vast amount of time and numerous steps to eliminate it from the bird’s feathers. Many oiled birds die because people with the best intentions, who are worried about removing the oil from feathers, wash them…

The Sydney Tar Ponds were a hazardous waste site on the Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. During the early 1900s, steel production began at this location and carried on for over 80 years. Throughout this duration of time, at least 700 000 tonnes of toxic by-products were produced due to smelting and steel production processes. Some of the by-products produced were total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs), benzene, toluene, ethyl-benzene, xylene (BTEX), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons…

Coal Oil Point along the California coast releases and estimated 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of oil into the Oceans each day, according to 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…

Executive Summary: Supply Chain Management at Nissan Amidst a Natural Disaster Introduction One of the most devastating examples of supply chain disruption can be seen from the natural disasters that hit Japan in March 2011. The damage from a major earthquake and its side effects including a tsunami, blackouts, and fuel shortages caused operational shutdowns in Japan’s second largest automobile manufacturer; Nissan. The Nissan operational suspensions were not only a result of local assembly…

This topic is about excavating the shipwrecks by using the digital technologies near the Cyprus. Cyprus is an island full of treasures. There was one ship from Athens to Egypt, then to Cyprus and another ship was from Athens to and Sicily. They shipped out at the ship season and trade with these two countries in 323-322 BC. The trade was usually between seven to twenty days. As the archaeologists went through water to excavate in 1967-1969, they found the skeleton of broken ship, the Kyrenia…

deNapoli, and the video Endangered Penguins Caught In Oil Spill, it discusses tragic oil spills from the crash of the two ships, the Treasure and MV Olivia which ended up spilling tons of fuel into the ocean where penguins live. Crews of volunteers were sent to South Africa and Nightingale island where they were most needed to help collect the penguins covered in toxic crude and save their lives. Although the three sources all explain an oil spill affecting the penguins, they conveyed the…

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill was a tragic mishap on BP’s behalf, killing several rig workers and having many other outreaching effects. The amount of crude oil that was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of approximately three months was 4.9 million barrels of oil and to go along with that, 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants to the Gulf. A major group of crude oil, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) was discovered along the northern shorelines of the Gulf of Mexico.…