As a result of gas station paying more for their gasoline, this will increase the amount the customer will have to pay for gasoline. According to the Federal Trade Commission, The storm “affected 19% of the United States oil production. Hurricanes Katrina (and a smaller previous Hurricane Rita) destroyed 113 offshore oil and gas platforms, damaged 457 oil and gas pipelines, and spilled nearly as much oil as the Exxon Valdez oil disaster”. This caused oil prices to increase by $3 a barrel, and gas prices to nearly reach $5 a gallon. Because of the devastation of hurricane Katrina many of the United States oil refineries were damaged, causing a decrease in gas supply.
Mine Rescue Association, 2012) The reason the mine was highly explosive was because of the coal dust buildup. Two year before the presence of the explosion, Frank Perez, who was a mine inspector from the U.S. Bureau of Mines, conducted a federal inspection of Centralia Mine. That same year, Scanlan told Prudent, who was the director of state mining board that he had to shut down the mine because the mine hand had not been cleaned. He also suggested that the company use sprinkler on the roads to help keep the coal dust down. The miners conducted a rotation where they worked four days and cleaned for three days.
A spill in any of the deep sea areas would reduce the biodiversity of that area through reductions of bird populations, fish-stocks and populations of marine mammals. All of which are already under severe threat of over fishing and habitat disturbance without this imposed threat. Furthermore the contamination of coastal and coral ecosystems will all lead to to damage on the livelihoods of fishermen and people involved the local tourism. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been described as the worst environmental disaster in the United States, releasing about 4.9 million barrels of crude oil making it the largest accidental marine oil spill. Most of the impact of this was experienced by the marine species.
Magnablend plant in Waxahachie An Industrial plant about 30 miles south of Dallas in Texas blazes into flames sending a massive black smoke into the sky and blazing chemicals pouring from the site. Some schools and resident have been evacuated, others were sent to shelters to protect them from the exposure of dangerous gasses. The fire moved pretty fast and the black smoke could be seen from miles away. According to Waxahachie police Lt. Joe Wiser in AP Regional State Report – Texas; (10/3/2011) Stated that no injuries had been reported since the fire was first called in about 10:40 a.m. The Major highway near the planet has been shut down and fire fighters from several nearby towns been called to battle the flames.
3. The conveyor malfunctioned and failed to stop when the client reached the top of the lift. The conveyor had been in use for twenty-five years, her employer replaced it the day after the accident. The employer dismantled the conveyor and disposed of many of the important parts. 4.
He became an alcoholic, lost his job, his family and in 1995, about seven years later, he committed suicide with a shotgun (Lunsford, 2002, Babinek, 1997). Robert Long shot himself some time after helping rescue nine trapped miners in the Quecreek Mine, PA. (Charney, 2003), There were six suicides after the Oklahoma City bombing. These included Terrance Yeaker, the first police officer to arrive on the scene, another police officer as well as a federal prosecutor who was involved in the McVeigh investigation (Hopkins, & Jones, 2004). The less dramatic incidence of incipient depression is more difficult to document. For example, police have an especially high suicide rate after
A tsunami “wave train” may come as surges five minutes to an hour apart. The cycle may be marked by the repeated retreat and advance of the ocean. Despite a lag of up to several hours between the earthquake and the impact of the tsunami, nearly all of the victims were taken completely by surprise because there were no tsunami warning systems in the Indian Ocean to detect tsunamis or to warn the general populace living around the ocean. The Indian Ocean tsunami travelled as far as 3,000 miles to Africa and still arrived with sufficient force to kill people and destroy property.
It was hard for people to believe this guy survived, although he was in a reinforced building its still amazing that he managed to survive. Among the survivors they discovered long term effects like leukemia and infertility (“The A-Bombs Invisible Offspring” 1). One of things that happened from the bomb is that the radiation changed the shape and color of some plants and also tinted some human skin and formed huge lumps of scar tissue called keloids (1). Some of the victims that survived ended up dying from keloids. More than after a year the bomb was dropped 50-65 ships in the area of radiation were contaminated and unable to ever be manned again (1).
1. Introduction In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil platform spit nearly five million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, making it the largest oil spill in history. The 1989 oil spill surpassed Exxon Valdez's oil spill in 1989 as the largest oil spill ever seen in US-controlled waters and the Ixtoc I oil spill of 1979 as the largest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon, an ultra-deepwater offshore rig, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico about 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, killing 11 riggers and injuring 17 others. The fire burned for 36 hours and the Macondo Prospect delivered about 4.9 million barrels of oil before being closed and sealed on 15 July almost three months later.
When you think of oil rigs, do you think of animals slowly dying under a film of oil? Most people don't but with the different spills occurring in the past twenty years they should. Though there are many years of oil left under the ocean floor, it is not worth all the damage done in the process to obtain it. Drilling off shore jeopardizes our ocean's ecosystem's well being; thus, permanently damaging the fisherman's market and increasing the unemployment rate for the lower class. It would take tens of billions of dollars plus multiple years to drill an amount of oil that would make America no longer dependent on foreign oil.