Impact of Oil Spills on Environment Essay

The Impact Of Pollution On Marine Wildlife Marine wildlife has been in existence for over million of years. Researchers and Marine Biologists have been trying to show the importance of the studies of how pollution impacts the lives of many marine wildlife and their habitat. It is necessary that we find out what pollution is doing to these poor marine animals and find a way to start making our marine wildlife clean and healthy. The purpose of this literature review is to provide research to the…

10th largest oil reserve in the world”. “The US consumes more oil than any oil country 1.85 billion barrels per day”. Oil spills affect the environment and economy. The Gulf of Mexico has over a thousand oil rigs. The Deepwater Horizon is one of the biggest oil rigs on the Gulf of Mexico. In 2010 there was one of the largest oil spills in History. As many oil rigs as there are on the Gulf of Mexico there are frequent spills. Deepwater Horizon was considered the largest marine oil spill in…

Oil Spills and How They Affect The Environment Oil spills, no matter how small or large, effect the worlds environment by their destroying and poisoning any habitat they come in contact with, mainly the water though. These spills can be devastating because they disrupt what we know as the food chain. The food chain starts with producers who are ate by small animals which are ate by larger and larger animals until the top predator is reached, humans. Oddly enough…

It is estimated that around 706 million gallons(2.6 Billion liters) of oil is polluted into the ocean each year(4). Majority of the oil pollution oil comes from ashore from waste disposal, land drainage and improper disposal of used motor oil(4). In recent times it has been discovered that a possible solution for oil pollution is the “Oleo Sponge”(as seen in figure 1(11)), an oleophilic and hydrophobic sponge that collects oil and rejects water housing up to ninety times its own weight than to…

April 20th of 2010, the BP oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven people who were aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig were killed on that day due to the explosion (BP Oil Spill, 2015). Aside from the danger from the initial sinking of the oil rig, the oil that entered the environment after the explosion aroused suspicion of being dangerous as well. The issue that is present due to the leak is that the oil which was released into the ocean is harmful to the environment. The issue can be…

Crudas Disasrous”is an oil tanker which has run aground and is leaking at a rate of 15 tonnes of oil per day. The oil is heading south with a strong current heading towards the bottom of Stradbroke Island from just north of Amity point and within 72 hours it will have reached the southern side of the islands ecosystems. North Stradbroke Island is made up of 18 regional ecosystems including; mudflats, mangroves, rocky shores and tidal flats, which is also located in Morton Bay just off the coast…

improving their tankers would be more costly versus a spill cleanup. They were wrong. They did not factor in getting caught and fined for their unethical behavior. Exxon's analysis of the costs of an oil spill versus the cost of improving their tankers seems to have been reasonable at the time it was taken. The social costs of killing birds and fish was expected to be low. In the future the estimated cost will be alot higher because of the Exxon Spill. There was such an outrage at Exxon's…

economies, it also produced a new, looming threat to marine wildlife and coastal economies. In 1967, the first major oil spill occurred off of the coast of the Isles of Scilly, when 38 million gallons of oil were spilled into surrounding waters. Including this incident, 36 major spills have occurred since 1967, exposing marine environments to at least one trillion gallons of oil (Oil). Now, it is being debated about whether or not to drill for natural resources off of the Southeastern Coast. In…

The Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker that was heading to Long Beach California. The tank had struck a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, which resulted in the spilling of 260,000 to 750,000 barrel of crude oil. The Exxon Valdez spilled 10.9 million gallons out of its 53 million gallon payload of Crude oil. Eight out of ten tanks on board spilled. The spill spread across 1,100 miles of non-persistent coastline in Alaska, which made Exxon Valdez oil spill the biggest oil spill in the historical…

is hoping to use the $60 million of the $1 billion received after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010 to rebuild one of its beachfront hotels. Council members say that in building the hotel it would bring back the recreational services and help rebuild the economy in Alabama. However, environmentalists are not pleased with the idea of building a hotel as they are concerned for the state of the environment. What council members do not recognize is that building such a hotel would have…