Oil Spill

Suzanne Lystad

HUM 114

12/08/2010

In September of 2110 two scientists and an engineer went aboard the Artic Sunrise to find out if the population of sperm and beaked whales. The whale population may have been affected by the Gulf oil spill. The reason behind this investigation is to see if the whales have or have not been affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Six arrays of underwater recording devices called EARS were placed in deep water on the whales feeding grounds. The EARS will capture the sounds of the whales to see if they were affected by the oil spill or not. The data that is collected will determine the population of several species of whales that are left and compare those numbers to the numbers which were collected over the past decade from the same location.

I consider this issue to be a moral matter because we have to live on this earth. We should not have to live in an unsafe or unclean environment. There were a few videos that talked about how well BP cleaned the oil spill. They found there were tar balls all over the beaches. These tar balls affected where the sea turtles lay their eggs; and ran the sea turtles off the beaches because the sand was still covered with tar balls, and oil was still mixed in the sand. It is not moral for BP to claim our beaches are clean and safe when that simply is not true.

There are several dilemmas surrounding the issue of the oil spill that our local community must deal with. These issues should include; 1. We need to come together and figure out a way to help clean up the beaches that surround our communities. 2. If we put our head together we can come up with a logical solution. 3. We all need to pitch in and help clean up the remains of what BP has claimed they have cleaned up. 4. We have to deal with this matter seriously. 5. Our children and their children and generations to come have every right to walk the beaches and know it is clean and safe.

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