Organizational Ethics: Oil Spills and Their Effects

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS
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ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS1
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Oil Spills..............................................................................................................................2
Exxon oil Spill.................................................................................................................2
BP oil spill.......................................................................................................................2
Effects of oil spills...............................................................................................................2
Exxon oil Spill.................................................................................................................2
BP oil spill.......................................................................................................................3
Charges and fines.................................................................................................................3
Exxon oil Spill.................................................................................................................3
BP oil spill.......................................................................................................................3
References............................................................................................................................4

ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS2
Oil Spills
Exxon oil Spill
The incident had taken place in the year 1989. The incident involved the spillage of
around 10.8 million gallons of crude oil in to the sea around Alaska’s Prince William Sound. The
oil was spilled when the oil carrier, Exxon Valdez, had hit the Bligh Reef a day after it had
started its journey from Alyeska Pipeline with 53 million gallons of crude oil (Gill, Ritchie &
Picou, 2016). The remnants of the spilled oil can be found to be present among the rocks at the
beaches around the Gulf of Alaska revealing that the area till date is being affected by the oil
spilled from the tanker.
BP oil spill
The incident had taken place in the year 2010. The incident involved the spillage of the
oil from the oil bed during the extraction process after a blast took place at the oil extraction site
(Beyer et al., 2016). The incident had taken place due to the weak nature of the cores that were
used as a part of the concerned machinery required for the extraction of the oil from the sea bed.
The incident involved the sinking of the rig and the unrestricted oil discharge into the sea waters
at the Gulf of Mexico. The incident had resulted in the discharge of around 200 million gallons
of crude oil into the sea for over 87 days (Lauritsen et al., 2017).
Effects of oil spills
Exxon oil Spill
The oil spill had affected the wildlife of the area in a worse manner. The oil spill had
been identified as the cause of the death of around 300 harbor seals, 250,000 seabirds and 2,800
sea otters (Gill, Ritchie & Picou, 2016). The oil spill was also responsible for the population