consequences of this spill were detrimental and continue to affect life today. The oil spill killed thousands of wildlife‚ extensively damaged a portion of the beautiful Alaskan environment‚ and eventually affected the economy to global proportions. Unfortunately‚ this tragedy could have been prevented. Lack of adequate safety efforts‚ enforcement‚ and regulations all played a major role in this truly catastrophic event. However‚ Prince William Sound’s remote location made government and industry relief efforts
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Selection of Topic: Energy Crisis is a shortfall in or interruption to the provision of energy supplies. The planet is progressively marching towards a serious electric energy crisis‚ owing to an escalating desire of electric energy becoming greater than its supply. We have always accepted that the energy we make use of each day is not unrestricted‚ still we take it for granted. Coal‚ petroleum‚ electrical power‚ even water has inadequate availability. Nevertheless‚ we have not taken sufficient
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Alexa Resnick What does the safety legislation implemented after the Exxon Valdez oil spill say about the government’s changing role in protecting against environmental hazards and how have the laws since then become stricter? One of the biggest take-aways from the Exxon Valdez oil spill was that prevention techniques and response capability were not effective enough. The large-scale shipment of oil on supertankers during the 1960s made a serious accident almost unavoidable. During the 1980s‚ safety
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BP ’s Management Crisis The Frontline report‚ “The Spill”‚ which focused on British Petroleum ’s problematic management culture and its catastrophic effects‚ aired on October 26‚ 2010. Around then‚ the oil giant BP had suffered a crisis with its latest off-shore oil rig‚ the Deepwater Horizon. However‚ this was just the latest in accidents concerning its oil operations. In the years before the Deepwater Horizon accident‚ BP had also suffered major accidents in its oil production fields in Texas
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of the oil spill the Obama administration imposed a six month moratorium on new deep water drilling operations which ended on the 12th of October. For twenty years previous to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico there had been a total ban on deep water off shore drilling. But during his presidency‚ Barack Obama lifted the barriers to allow deepwater drilling to take place and his reasons for doing this were said to be to reduce the reliance on importing oil in from abroad. The oil spill‚ however‚
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill July 5‚ 2010 Word count: Background: BP plc is a British-based global energy company which is the third largest energy company and it is the United Kingdom’s largest corporation the fourth largest company in the world (BP‚ Wikipedia). Its name is initials of the company’s former legal names British Petroleum. British Petroleum merged with Amoco in December
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PRIVATE SECTOR VS PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING STANDARD 1. INTRODUCTION The global financial crisis has demonstrated that the public sector as well as the private sector needs the highest quality accounting standards. Around the world‚ accounting in the public sector is practiced in diverse ways and struggles to achieve comparable standard in accountability and transparency. The Securities Act of 1933 gave the commission the authority to prescribe accounting standards to be followed by the companies
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1–7 • • • • Look at the statements below and the job advertisements on the opposite page. Which job advertisement (A‚ B‚ C or D) does each statement 1–7 refer to? For each statement 1–7‚ mark one letter (A‚ B‚ C or D). You will need to use some of these letters more than once. Example: 0 You will need to know a foreign language for this job. 0 A B C D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Your letter of application should not be typed. You must have a science degree for this job. If you are interested in this
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Cephalonia‚ Greece‚ 14-16 September 2006 A Six-step process for effective Crisis Management in the Port Industry EVANGELOS KOUNOUPAS‚ University of Piraeus‚ Department of Maritime Studies‚ 40‚ Karaoli & Dimitriou Str.‚ 185 32‚ Piraeus – Greece‚ Tel: +30 210 414 2535‚ Fax: +30 210 414 2569‚ Email: kounoupa@unipi.gr‚ kounoupa@ath.forthnet.gr ABSTRACT Crises often appear to be inevitable for a number of reasons. Traditional crisis management theory distinguishes between environmental factors and internal
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Spanish Economic Crisis: Why the Recovery is Taken so Long? Summary: Spain is currently facing its worst crisis in the last fifty years. The crisis began as an extension of the international financial crisis‚ but the internal imbalances accumulated in the pre-crisis period aggravated the situation. At present their incomplete adjustment is making difficult the economic recovery. This paper describes the evolution of the economic crisis in Spain. The real estate sector and the banking sector are analysed
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