Occidental Petroleum

On August 6, 2007 the Crandall Canyon mine suffered a collapse which trapped and killed six miners. The mine is located near Huntington, Utah and a large source of jobs in the area is coal related. The event occurred because of dangerous mining practices and not taking caution after a similar incident occurred in March, which offered “clear ‘red flags’ indicating that the mine was unstable” (Urbina). From the conflict perspective we can see two groups, Murray Energy Corporation (bourgeoisie) and…

Thames Water, as the biggest water company in England and Wales, has made unacceptable failure to control water leakages just months after pouring raw sewage into London’s main river. The companies’ behaviors bring a set of moral issues and is a right/wrong conflict. The most important moral challenge in this case is that Thames Water made profit at the cost of environment and public health while its primary obligation is to protect public health. Thames Water is being investigated by regulator…

In this ever-evolving world, we are constantly using things that use electricity without any thought. As the world evolves and develops, the need for energy increases, and the resources are drained. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, we have been utilizing fossil fuels to create the required energy to power our homes, cars, and businesses. Regrettably, our reserves of fossil fuels are running low, and they have been viewed to increase the temperature in the atmosphere and accelerate global…

Throughout history there have been various definitions present on what a disaster is and the effects that it contains in relation to the environment and residents within the area. Society often has specific dominant worldviews in regards to disasters, which can pertain to or focus around disasters being seen as a “hazard”, “unlucky”, or an “unavoidable “ event (Scandlyn et al, 2009). Generally, many individuals tend to reflect on definitions in relation to conventional theories because the media…

Background “Tap a Button, Get a Ride’’, this meaning leads to Uber Technologies Inc. Uber is online transportation network company, is an American worldwide company, based in San Francisco, California. Established in 2009, by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick. The Company was initially founded as UberCab. Now, the service available in over 66 countries and 507 cities worldwide. (Uber, 2008). How it is work : (Software) Uber have application through the smartphone platform, which allows the…

Nigeria is plagued by conflicts between various ethnic groups, issues of widespread government corruption and ineffectiveness, and by conflicts concerning the production and sale of oil. These problems are all especially evident in the Niger Delta. As a resident of the Niger Delta and an ethnic minority within Nigeria, I have a unique perspective on the situations at hand, as well as how they aught to be remedied. I hope to see citizens of the Delta gain an increased amount of regional…

TOPIC TransCanada is planning to take over the U.S 3 party gas pipeline operator. From the past two weeks, I have been reading this news in many website’s article about that the TransCanada is going to take over the U.S. gas pipeline i.e. Columbia pipeline. So suddenly this news attracts me and I wanted to go deep down about what exactly about this deal and how does it make any difference in supply chain industries especially in oil supply chain industries in up north side of Canada. So when I…

Scrapping and pollution. Despite shipbreaking being a profitable industry there are a number of environmental and human health hazards. A brief review in numbers shows that scrapped ships have an unlabeled weight of between 5,000 and 40,000 tons, 95% of which is steel, coated with between 10 and 100 tons of paint containing lead, cadmium, organotins, arsenic, zinc and chromium. Ships also contain a wide range of other hazardous wastes, sealants containing PCBs, up to 7.5 tons of various types…

Crude oil is a complex mixture of various organic compounds, comprising of different hydrocarbons and heteroatomic compounds (Simanzhenkov and Idem, 2003). In addition to carbon and hydrogen, petroleum might contain sulphur, oxygen and nitrogen, and metals such as nickel, vanadium, iron, and copper. Crude oil physical and chemical compositions vary with location, depth and age (Rahimi and Gentzis, 2006). Physical composition of crude oil varies from black liquids of high viscosity to…

2. Environmental restoration “A bird's nest nestled in the tall grasses of a wetland symbolizes the end of a 20-year struggle to clean up a site contaminated by radioactive material from a former Cold War-era uranium processing plant…”(Cornwell, 2007). The ultimate objective of Fernald Closure Project was the accomplishment of environmental restoration in compliance with federal environmental regulations. In 2006, Fluor successfully completed the project of environmental restoration with the…