Bp Oil Spill And Energy Policy

Author : Tamra B. Orr
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634729536

Get Book

BP Oil Spill and Energy Policy by Tamra B. Orr Pdf

This book relays the factual details of the BP oil spill through three different perspectives. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of an online investigator, California student, and Louisiana shrimper. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives while gathering and analyzing information about a modern event. Content focuses on point-of-view and encourages readers to understand how background and experience can lead to differing views.

Author : Joseph A. Tainter,Tadeusz W. Patzek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1441976779

Get Book

Drilling Down by Joseph A. Tainter,Tadeusz W. Patzek Pdf

For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex through the bounty of cheap energy, they also confront problems that seem to increase in number and severity. In this era of fossil fuels, cheap energy and increasing complexity have been in a mutually-reinforcing spiral. The more energy we have and the more problems our societies confront, the more we grow complex and require still more energy. How did our demand for energy, our technological prowess, the resulting need for complex problem solving, and the end of easy oil conspire to make the Deepwater Horizon oil spill increasingly likely, if not inevitable? This book explains the real causal factors leading up to the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, a disaster from which it will take decades to recover.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010
ISBN : MINN:31951D03670257I

Get Book

The Role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010
ISBN : MINN:31951D03670068L

Get Book

The BP Oil Spill by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Pdf

Author : Rawle O. King
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437937107

Get Book

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster by Rawle O. King Pdf

The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was the largest spill to have occurred in U.S. waters. The scale of clean-up costs and third-party damages has prompted congressional review of clean-up and damage compensation mechanisms, as well as of ways to facilitate future oil spill prevention, response, and recovery. A key element is the role of insurance in ensuring that costs of spills can be financed. Contents of this report: (1) Intro.; (2) The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Incident; (3) The Offshore Energy Exploration and Production Business: Risk Management and the Demand for Insurance; (4) Offshore Energy Insurance Market; (5) Compensating Oil Pollution Victims; (6) Policy Issues. Illus.

Author : Denis A. Michaels
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010
ISBN : 1619424991

Get Book

Deepwater Horizon by Denis A. Michaels Pdf

Both the individual circumstances of the Deepwater Horizon incident, as well as the overall framework for how the federal government responds to oil spills, present a mix of evolving, but as yet uncertain, financial risks to the federal government and its Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. The extent of financial risks to the federal government from the Deepwater Horizon is closely tied to BP and the other responsible parties. This book identifies the financial risks to the federal government resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; and assesses the Coast Guard's internal controls for ensuring that processes and payments for spill-related cost reimbursements and claims related to the spill are appropriate. Also discussed is the extent to which the federal government oversees the BP and Gulf Coast Claims Facility cost reimbursement and claims processes.

Author : William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262015837

Get Book

Blowout in the Gulf by William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling Pdf

The story of how a chain of failures, missteps, and bad decisions led to America's biggest environmental disaster.

Author : Curry L. Hagerty
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437934731

Get Book

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill by Curry L. Hagerty Pdf

On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire occurred on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). This resulted in 11 worker fatalities, a massive oil release, and a national response effort in the GoM region by the federal and state governments as well as BP. Contents of this report: (1) Intro.; (2) Setting in the GoM: Oil and Gas Recovery; Weather and Ocean Currents; Biological Resources; (3) Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling Technology; (4) Fed. Statutory Framework; (5) Fed. Regulatory Framework; (6) Environmental and Economic Impacts; (7) Labor Issues; (8) Reorganization of Minerals Mgmt. Service; (9) FEMA Issues; Exxon Valdez; Recent Regional Disaster History; (10) Conclusion. Charts and tables.

Author : Melissa K. Merry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136274121

Get Book

Framing Environmental Disaster by Melissa K. Merry Pdf

The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent underground oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is considered by many to be the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Interest groups, public officials, and media organizations have spent considerable time documenting the economic and ecological impacts of this spill as well as the causes of the spill, ostensibly to prevent future disasters of this magnitude. However, rather than an unbiased search for answers, such investigations involve strategic efforts by a variety of political actors to define the spill and its causes in ways that lead to their preferred policy solutions. Framing Environmental Disaster evaluates the causal stories that environmental groups tell about the spill and develops theoretical propositions about the role of such stories in the policy process. Which actors do groups hold responsible, and how do groups use blame attributions to advance their policy agendas? Constructing a creative methodological approach which includes content analysis drawn from blog posts, emails, press releases, and testimony before Congress and insights and quotations drawn from interviews with environmental group representatives, Melissa K. Merry argues that interest groups construct causal explanations long before investigations of policy problems are complete and use focusing events to cast blame for a wide range of harms not directly tied to the events themselves. In doing so, groups seek to take full advantage of “windows of opportunity” resulting from crises. An indispensable resource for scholars of public policy and environmental politics and policy, this book sheds new light on the implications of the gulf disaster for energy politics and policies while advancing scholarly understandings of the role of framing and causal attribution in the policy process.

Author : Peter Lehner,Bob Deans
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781935928096

Get Book

In Deep Water by Peter Lehner,Bob Deans Pdf

"First published by OR Books LLC, New York"--T.p. verso.

Author : Vijayakumar Honnungar
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640939527

Get Book

British Petroleum Oil Spill Crisis and Aftermath by Vijayakumar Honnungar Pdf

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: B, The ESC Rennes School of Business (-), course: MSc in Finance, language: English, abstract: BP (British Petroleum), the world's one of the well known and largest companies in the field of Oil & Gas, very recently came across an unforeseen event - the massive oil spill in U.S Gulf of Mexico area. BP's this incident led into shattering events with major environmental and financial implications. This further led to the series of questions being raised by the experts and the corporate citizens of the world, about the long term repercussions from BP's oil spill crisis. This theme is further elaborated with detailed findings and conclusion in the said paper.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:741350758

Get Book

Blowout in the Gulf by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Adekoya
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783656673798

Get Book

BP Oil Spill. Documenting the Crisis in US Gulf Coast by Christopher Adekoya Pdf

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Environmental Policy, , course: Environmental Policy/Environmental Economics/Environmental Education, language: English, abstract: The damaged Deep-water Horizon rig not only led to deaths in a workplace, it exposed the failure of a company that probably put profits before people. The unconscionable decisions of a multinational corporation in oil and gas prospecting, its contractors and associated partners led to the deaths of innocent workers. The analysis of events surrounding the accidental explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on the Deep-water Horizon rig added new knowledge to the understanding of risk involved in prospecting for oil and gas in deep and shallow water. BP OIL SPILL: Documenting the Crisis in US Gulf Coast is a piece of this knowledge.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822037825510

Get Book

National Commission Report on the BP Oil Spill by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Pdf

Author : United States. National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010
ISBN : UOM:39015087426923

Get Book

Deep Water by United States. National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Pdf

Synopsis: On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well blew out, costing the lives of 11 men, and beginning a catastrophe that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and spilled over 4 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill disrupted an entire region's economy, damaged fisheries and critical habitats, and brought vividly to light the risks of deepwater drilling for oil and gas-the latest frontier in the national energy supply. Soon after, President Barack Obama appointed a seven-member Commission to investigate the disaster, analyze its causes and effects, and recommend the actions necessary to minimize such risks in the future. The Commission's report offers the American public and policymakers alike the fullest account available of what happened in the Gulf and why, and proposes actions-changes in company behavior, reform of government oversight, and investments in research and technology-required as industry moves forward to meet the nation's energy needs. Complementary reports, staff background papers, hearing records, and other materials produced by the Commission are available at www.oilspillcommission.gov.