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    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 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less…

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    Essay On BP Oil Spill

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    care of the little fresh water that we have then the water will not continue to support the entire human race. One example of companies not caring enough about the environment was the huge BP oil spill in 2010. Although the spill happened in the Gulf of Mexico, some of the contaminated water traveled into the rivers making the fresh river water not safe to drink.…

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    On August 29th 2005, the third strongest hurricane recorded in US history struck land fall. This hurricane was called Katrina, as scientist had been tracking its progression ever since it reached a category 5 in the Gulf of Mexico, the first to do so in over 25 years (Hurricanes: Science and Society). Hurricane Katrina did not just form randomly, multiple physical factors led to the growth of Katrina and the reason for it becoming so large. Hurricane Katrina began forming on August 23, as a…

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    Days after the initial explosion, the travesty continues to hold national headlines. Subsequently, oil has began spreading hundreds of miles in the Gulf of Mexico. An estimated millions of liters continue to spill daily, beginning to kill the environment and wildlife of all organisms which depend on the natural ecosystems to survive. Although the date of 4/20 is often joked about, the Deepwater Horizon…

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    August 29 with continuous winds at speed 120 mph. A wind that blew that speed had a lot of destructive power that caused flipping over everything that stays on its way and flooding. According to Whitten 2015, on 08/29/2005, hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and water flooded New Orleans. City was devastated right after levees that were keep the storm failed, and approximately 80 percent of area in New Orleans was under water. Plyer 2016, states that hurricane Katrina and the flooding…

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    Audrey developed from a tropical wave that moved across the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea during June 1957. The system began deepening over the Gulf of Mexico during on June 24, 1957. On June 25 at 06 GMT, the tropical storm was located at 21.6 Latitude, 93.3 longitude with wind speeds up to 70 mph. On June 25, the storm stopped over the southwestern Gulf and it quickly became a hurricane. The storm was located at 23.9 latitude, 93.7 longitude with wind speeds up to 90 mph. The storm moved…

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    Gulf Oil Spill Case Study

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    Problem : April 22 of 2010, approximately 206 million gallons of oil was spilt in the Gulf of Mexico. The Mother Nature Network stated, “Gulf Oil Spill is the officially the largest oil spill in the world history”, (“Mother Nature Network”, Laura Moss). The Gulf Oil Spill started when oil went miles below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and it exploded. It caused BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig that it killed 11 people. The oil spread for more than 85 days and oiled 572 miles. Along the way,…

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    America. The hurricane Katrina originated in the coast of Bahamas where it was formed Hurricane Katrina caused major havoc that affected the planet earth in a very big way. The hurricane Katrina damaged the oil mining of Bp along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico leading to massive oil spillages…

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    of the “largest and 3rd strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the US” according to (Holden, 2006) until recent natural disasters. Thousands of civilians were affected personally and financially. Hurricane Katrina started in the Gulf of Mexico and moved west to New Orleans. Around August 26-27, 2005. The Mayor at the time Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr. ordered an emergency evacuation after getting a call from Max Mayfair stating “This is one of the worst storms that I have ever seen in…

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    tragic day for the residents in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama. It was a day that would change their lives. On August 25, Hurricane Katrina hit land in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 40 mph. On August 28, in the Gulf of Mexico, Katrina became a Category 5 with winds of 175 mph. At 6:10 on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Louisiana. When it finally reached Louisiana on August 29, it had weakened to a Category 3 with sustained winds of 120…

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