Exxon Valdez oil spill

Machu Picchu, the Hidden Place The city of Machu Picchu, which comes from the Quechua language, has been abandoned by the Incas of Cusco for over three-hundred years. It also stands in the Andes Mountains and lingers over the Urubamba River. It’s elevated 10,000 feet and has walls that not even a credit card can not slide through, puzzling archaeologists for many years (Schreiber 1). Machu Picchu, located in Peru, is a place filled with amazing artifacts and ruins. The buildings’ architecture…

HINKLEY, CARLIFORNIA NEWS FORUM 01 August 1993 WATER CONTAMINATION IN HINKLEY I am Erin Brokovich; I am a twice-divorced mother of three young children aged between 9 months to 8 years old. I believe the $28 billion company Pacific Gas and Electric has poisoned the water supply of Hinkley, California with hexavalent chromium. In 18 months, I hope with the help of 634 plaintiffs and Masry law firm to sue PG&E for 333 million dollars for the water contamination in Hinkley. PG&E is a $28…

Leading Australian swimwear brand, Seafolly, has won a long-running lawsuit against Fewstone (trading as City Beach) who copied its bikini designs. The bikini battle lasted almost two years and cost City Beach $250,000 in damages. The court case centred on Seafolly's top bikini designs-its English Rose print bikini, popular Covent Garden floral design, and Senorita prints. City Beach was found by the Federal Court to have knocked-off Seafolly's bikini designs, and then sold them in its 60…

On January 28, 1969, the Union oil rig in the Dos Cuadras offshore oil field, 8 miles southeast of Santa Barbara had a blowout. The blowout resulted in 30 million gallons of crude oil being spilt along the Santa Barbara channel. After the spill, disturbing images were released and for weeks national attention focused on the spill. The spill had a significant impact on marine life in the channel, killing an estimated 3,500 seabirds, as well as marine animals such as dolphins, elephant seals, and…

Chapter Nine: Unwholesome Waters The Deepwater Horizon spilled over four million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. These oil companies learned they are far from being prepared for accidents such as this. Even though, this killed copious amounts of marine life, boats and other water vessels powered by fossil fuels kill more marine life each year with the chemical they leave in the water. Why not stop using oil? Money would be the deciding factor. Organic pollution ingested by the bottom…

death of numerous marine animals. Small oil leaks that occur on a regular basis also add to ocean pollution, such as leaks from offshore-drilling rigs and boats. Pollution became a significant problem after the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s. Water pollution intensified with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, when factories began releasing pollutants directly into rivers and streams. In the article by Max Roser, he states, “The biggest oil spill in history was the Lakeview Gusher…

SHELL MALAYSIA’S BACKGROUND Shell is owned by Royal Dutch/Shell Group which has more than 145 branches around the world. Malaysia's first oil well was discovered by Shell on Canada Hill in Miri, Sarawak in 1910, Shell Malaysia is one of them which is wholly-owned, joint-venture and public-listed company. It was introduced in 1960 as Shell refining company berhand and they invested over RM 70 billion over the past four decades which had a current investment commitment of RM 12 billion from 2003…

where it floats down south and into Lake Erie. On the morning of June twenty second nineteen sixty nine, when a passing rail car was crossing over a suspended bridge over the Cuyahoga river. Hurling a spark off the bridge and landed onto the sewage and oil soaked water. Fighting the fire only took fire fighters thirty minutes to extinguish and caused fifty thousand dollars in damages. Minimal was the outcome to the…

The Pine Creek Rail-Trail travels for 62 miles along the railroad beds of several former Pine Creek Railroads. Eighteen miles of the trail follow the floor of the Pine Creek Gorge, also referred to as the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania. On smooth crushed stone, the mostly level trail runs from Stokesdale Junction, outside of Wellsboro, PA to Jersey Shore, PA, through the historically rich and timeless Pine Creek Valley. The railroad along Pine Creek opened in 1883 as the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek,…

During Cosmos S.1 Ep.7, I've learned about the event of lead poisoning around the world. This episode is about a scientist named Clare Patterson, whom discovered Earth's real age. Patterson performs an experiment called "The Clean Room" where Patterson studies tiny zircon crystals. He measures the lead and it is six times more than what was in the zircons. Then something serious occurred. Patterson's lead measurement numbers were inconsistent. He thought maybe that his lab had been contaminated.…