some aspect of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Running Head : Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill- British petroleum and the United States government

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The British Petroleum 's Deepwater Horizon oil spill is the worst ecological disaster ever to hit the United States of America . The discharge of oil has spread rapidly and resulted in lack of oxygen for the fisheries . Marine life has been thrown in to catastrophic disarray Tony Hayward , chief executive of British Petroleum , however , disagrees He claimed that the environmental damage has been and

will be very limited . The toxicities of the oil have contaminated all organisms of the food chain . This could at least have been reduced if British Petroleum initially did not refuse to investigate the discharged oil The management should have known better . The communities of Gulf Coast will be affected for several years to come . A substantial part of these communities ' economies is the seafood industry . Fishing has been prohibited already , with many fishermen jobless (Schweiger , 2010

British Petroleum did not have a good performance record even prior to this incident . They have been found to be incompetent and careless . They offset these weaknesses by having by their side many lobbyists and lawyers . Also , British Petroleum spends a lot to advertize it self as a company that is much more than just another petroleum company . There is no denying the fact that British Petroleum was not prepared for such an accident . They did not have a plan in case of...