oil spill by anne skelly, luke rosenberger, and sawyer rosenstein

Oil Spill

By Anne Skelly, Luke Rosenberger, and Sawyer Rosenstein

WHO IS BP?•BRITISH PETROLEUM

•ALSO INCLUDES/INCLUDED:

Largest Areas of Operation

• North America• South America• Europe• Asia• Australia/New Zealand• Northern Africa

HORROR AT BP

Sea Gem offshore oil rig

disaster-1965

Texas City

Refinery Explosion

-2005

Money Flowing Like Oil?

BP2010 Q1Income

$14.32 Billion

BP2010 Q2Income

-$20.11 Billion

Who’s in Charge?

Carl-Henric Svanberg: Chairman

Tony Hayward: Group Executive/Oil

Spill Public Figure

What is my response to the spill?

l

• Bp will pay for the damages done • “I'm as devastated as you are by what I've

seen hoere today. We are going to do everything in our power to prevent any more oil from coming ashore, and we will clean every last drop.”- Tony Hayward CEO of Bp

• Bp assigning $500 million to a research program to assess the damage to the gulf

• Bp will compensate all business affected by spill

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70N1ZaXQxaU

• Congressman said taxpayers should be paid back their money

s

• People say the us government was too slow in operating with the Bp oil spill

• State and local officials complain not receiving sufficient help from the federal government

•

• Environmentalists are angry at the government for lack of help

• They are asking for sand barriers against the oil

Capturing the explosion.

• http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6490138n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

Surviving the explosion

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6795582n&tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea.5(start at about 2:20 animation begins at about

6:15)

• http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-human-condition/2010/05/10/bp-s-plans-to-stop-the-oil-spill-so-crazy-they-just-might-work.html

• http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/17/the-environmental-legacy-of-the-oil-spill.html

• http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/04/oil-spill-forces-obama-to-postpone-australia-and-indonesia-trip.html

• And 60 Minutes

• http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/Oil-Spill-Cartoons/Oil-Leak-Estimates.1-Ts.htm political cartoons

• http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20100525/ARTICLES/100529608?p=2&tc=pg information

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70N1ZaXQxaU congressman

• http://bp.com – BP Website for all information on the company