SAXENARAGHAV YADAVROHAN ANANDDATE OF SUBMISSION: 24TH AUGUST‚ 2010 | | Effect of BP oil spill and subsequent market reaction on the assets of pension funds and mutual funds Case Facts:- * 20th April 2010 – an explosion caused by blowout on Deepwater Horizon rig kills 11 crewman (including 9 Transocean employees) and ignites a fireball visible from 35 miles. * Deepwater Horizon was leased to BP from March 2008 to September 2013 * Share price on 21st April 2010 – 648.20p & lowest
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Ethical Issues surrounding the BP Oil Spill By: Angela Higgins December 16‚ 2010 The BP Oil Spill which happened on April 20‚ 2010‚ was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history releasing approximately 185 million gallons of crude oil into the gulf. This event was the result of a wellhead on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform blowing out in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 40 miles southeast offs the Louisiana coastline. Eleven men working on the oil rig platform were killed and
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Find two examples of companies‚ products or organizations which display social responsibility: one which displays good social responsibility and one which displays poor social responsibility. For each‚ explain why you have this opinion of these firms. Read all posts before yours - no duplicates allowed‚ so if another student has already posted about your choices‚ change your example to some other firm. Early posts have priority. Then come back to the discussion and comment on the examples given
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Overfishing in the Gulf of Mexico In recent years the fish and all the other marine animals that live in the Gulf have been affected by different natural disasters or disasters caused by us humans. For example‚ the most recent natural disaster that affected the lives of many marine animals in the Gulf was Hurricane Katrina in 2005‚ which caused the Gulf Coast entered the United States with lots of water and different types of animals from the gulf. This caused many fish to die and some to even become
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International Environmental law and Biodiversity Questions: Oil and gas exploitation ’ ’A paradox of plenty ’ ’ A Lesson and a challenge for multinational corporations and the indigenous people in a ’ ’new ’ ’ Arctic Akureyri 26/02/2012 Answer: Over the past years‚there has been a shift by oil and gas companies to Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR).[1]CSR is a self regulatory policy whereof businesses monitor and ensure it actively
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BP Oil Spill Background The British Petroleum Oil Spill incident is the largest in history that raises various issue environmental and ethical issues. On 20th of April 2010‚ an explosion of the drilling rig caused the oil spill close to the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico‚ in which 11 employees were killed. It took around five months for the oil well to exert no further risk and be concealed‚ where many controversies arose throughout the period. BBC‚ 2010. Timeline: BP Oil Spill. BBC
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Review of Healthcare Block Budget Subvention ============================================================================== Case: NUH at WestPoint Hospital As NUH was facing very bad bed crunch‚ the management decided to lease beds from private players to extend its inpatient facility. As the manager from Inpatient Operations‚ I was tasked to put up the funding request to Ministry of Health for the additional subvention to support NUH operate the offsite inpatient facility at WestPoint
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Questions: What are the environmental implications of oil spills? What legislative policies have been instituted to mitigate the possibility of future oil spills? How are oil spills cleaned up and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each method? What type of research and innovation surrounding oil spills has been done to prevent their occurrence? In order to foster an environment for emerging technologies and higher standards of living‚ the United States‚ Canada and many other nations
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123 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill‚ the Gulf of Mexico oil spill‚ the BP oil disaster‚ or the Macondo blowout) is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed for three months in 2010. It is the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. The spill stemmed from a sea-floor oil gusher that resulted from the April 20‚ 2010‚ explosion of Deepwater Horizon‚ which drilled on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. The explosion killed
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Oil Spill Group 3 Vera Lois A. Decano Kriceal Viz B. Saldon Mia Tagle Sam John F. Luison Kathe Unabia Chayya Margaret P. Golez Dominic M. Concillo Oil Spill Introduction In the recent years there have been occurrences of oil spills in several locations within our country. Knowing that these have adverse effects on our environment and the ecosystem as a whole‚ we’ve always been in search of ways to counter this major problem. The damages we receive from an oil spill
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