Thomas Preston BA 2196 Section 14/Emil Steiner 10-31-2012 British Petroleum’s public image was damaged immensely by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its poor public relations management during the weeks that followed. BP created the “Gulf of Mexico Restoration” website to inform the public about its efforts in cleaning up the spill and to help restore public trust in the company again. BP’s “Gulf of Mexico Restoration” website uses these three strategies to try to repair its reputation:
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BP oil spill is ranked as the largest environmental disaster in the world history. As the oil from BP spill washes ashore‚ people on Gulf Coast are suffering huge damages they have never met before. The U.S. government estimates that up to 60‚000 barrels of oil a day are spewing out from the damaged BP drilling rig to Gulf of Mexico. It has ruined the shoreline‚ killed animal and sea life‚ threaten the ecosystem and harmed the tourism and fishing in Louisiana. After the spilling happened‚ US government
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The 2010 BP oil spill that took place on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect claimed 11 lives‚ and is considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the petroleum industry’s history. The spill flowed continuously for 87 days until it was declared to have been contained on 15th July 2010 and finally sealed on 19th September of the same year (BP‚ 2013). However‚ unconfirmed reports indicate that some of the well sites continue to leak (Pulham‚ Hilaire & Fenn‚ 2010). The spill took a physical and psychological
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controversy is that an oil spill in Mumbai‚ India is very hazardous to the fishermen. 2. The leakage started around the coast of Uran‚ very close to Mumbai on Sunday night‚ and ended about 3-4 hours later. The oil spill resulted from a pipeline burst when power failed inside the OCNG’s Uran plant. 3. It’s nothing new to the fisherman because they went through a similar issue. In 2010‚ the M.S.C. Chitra (sheet-ra) and MV Khalijia (Ka-lee-hia) spilled more than 800 tons of oil into the Arabian Sea
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(NaturalNews) It’s true the almost five million barrels of oil that contaminated the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill was an ecological nightmare. And residents of the area have complained for the last two years that the chemicals dumped into the area as an ill-thought-out solution have made many of them sick. But what about the ocean itself that has been treated as an experimental chemical dump by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and corporate giant BP? Turns out
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BP was the ªrst of these companies to change from a reactive to a proactive climate strategy formulation. In 1996‚ it withdrew from the oppositional Global Climate Coalition (GCC)‚ which was characterized as the most powerful lobby organization in climate policy.28 BP then accepted the climate change problem as diagnosed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and gave its support to the Kyoto Protocol. In 1998 BP’s strategy formu- lation developed further in a proactive direction
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Oil spills and the impacts on the ecosystem Discuss the short and long term effects of your chosen impacts on a specific ecosystem. Your response needs to include: -a definition of the impact - How the impact arises (Causes) - the effects on the living AND non living components (think about all the spheres) - Methods to reduce the impacts An oil spill is a release of oil into a body of water‚ often stored in a tanker‚ offshore drilling rig or an underwater pipeline. An oil spill often
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WHAT IS AN OIL SPILL? An oil spill is the discharge of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment‚ especially marine areas‚ due to human activities‚ and is one form of pollution. An oil spill occurs when a vehicle‚ vessel‚ pipeline or drilling rig releases petroleum products into the environment uncontrollably. The first major oil spill on record happened when the Thomas W. Lawson schooner became beached in the Isles of Scilly in 1907‚ spilling 58‚000 barrels of paraffin oil into the
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oil spill: Oil spills happen when people make mistakes or are careless and cause an oil tanker to leak oil into the ocean. There are a few more ways an oil spill can occur. Equipment breaking down may cause an oil spill. If the equipment breaks down‚ the tanker may get stuck on shallow land. When they start to drive the tanker again‚ they can put a hole in the tanker causing it to leak oil. When countries are at war‚ one country may decide to dump gallons of oil into the other country’s oceans
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largest oil spill to date. However‚ the oil spill did not only affect the gulf. Animals‚ humans‚ ecosystems‚ and biodiversity were all impacted as a result. This act‚ inflicted as a war strategy by the Iraqi’s‚ is the cause of mass deterrence to the environment in the area. Although tremendous progress has been made in an effort to clean the Gulf War oil spill‚ there are still several efforts that must be made in order to maximize the fixation. In this paper‚ there are several aspects of the spill to
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