Impact of Oil Spills on Environment Essay

documentary about oil drilling. You decide to start watching and once you get into it, you don’t want to stop. You keep watching more and learning more about what happens during oil drilling. Then the documentary starts showing pictures of the possible effects of oil drilling. The pictures of an oil spill. Pictures of animals coated in oil. Pictures of oil floating on the surface of the ocean. You wonder what happened and why. Then you learn. You learn that when rigs drill for oil, they have to…

this helps to regulate the shark population, and by this protecting law, I believe it could save millions of shark getting killed by shark finning. However, it isn’t enough to save more sharks; the oil spills was the issue discuss in earlier. There is a difficulty to have entire disintegration of oil spills be done in the Gulf of Mexico, because it is depending on varying…

species of whales, dolphins and porpoises have been recorded in the Great Barrier Reef including the Pacific humpback dolphin and the humpback whales. The reef and is home to 500,000 sea birds and a major turtle nesting. 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill .wikipedia.com {viewed 20/5}2015 AIM This report will reveal on the great beer reef and investigate what happed to the great beer reef and…

Unit 9 Assignment, I will be preparing a policy brief on offshore energy planning and management. This brief will discuss three options such as the complexity of overlapping statutes through regulatory agencies, oil spill prevention and response, and the efforts to reduce environmental impacts through research and conclusions about the predicted effects of these policy options. A final recommendation of which policy option would be best utilized to ensure success. According to the National…

a majority of marine conservation acts passed by Congress have not been enforced properly or are ignored entirely. Some environmentalists argue that we as citizens are to blame because we are too busy with our personal lives to care about the environment—most of us don’t recycle, utilize alternative sources of energy, or think twice about the detrimental effects that our lifestyles and everyday habits have on the oceans, let alone any other ecosystem or even the Earth, for that matter. I hope to…

State officials and environmentalists are worried about the potential long term effects of the oil spill on the wildlife. Compared to the other oil spills disaster, this one wasn’t as bad because the most heavily impacted area is a relatively narrow 30 mile stretch. The Yellowstone National Park isn’t affected by the oil spill, but the 30 mile stretch that was polluted by the oil spill is affected. The 30 mile stretch includes a bird watching haven. However, the good thing about the…

information on the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill. Both instances will be evaluated on the lack of ethical behavior, and how it can be improved or avoided in these situations. Enron scandal As described in the text, ethics are the inner guiding moral principles, values, and beliefs that people use to analyze or interpret a situation and then decide what is the right or appropriate way to behave (Jones, G., & George, J.,…

technology [would] allow us to open up new areas to environmentally responsible exploration for oil and natural gas… developing this tiny section of ANWR could eventually yield up to a million barrels of oil per day. That’s a million barrels less that we’ve depended on from foreign sources of energy.” – (End quote) The Defenders of Wildlife countered with the fact that drilling in ANWR would demolish the environment (which is proven from drilling in other parts of Alaska), shatter one of the…

looking at all of the environmental disasters of the United States, the BP Oil Spill and Dust Bowl are by far two of the most devastating disasters to the surrounding environment and ecosystem. Although both natural disasters have different characteristics and environmental effects, each disaster greatly impacted the surrounding ecosystems from before and after the disasters. Although the Gulf of Mexico before the BP oil spill was still known for its suffering under the effects of coastal…

Iowa, called the North Dakota Access Pipeline. It is also called the Bakken pipeline, since it is taking the crude oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota. Since the beginning of the construction, there have been small protests from the local Native American Sioux tribe, but recently the protests have gotten much larger. The protestors have a strong argument. As with most oil production projects, the pipeline construction will involve despoiling lands and encroaching on communities. The…