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This 6 page paper outlines the potential environmental hazards of our petroleum dependent lifestyles as are framed by the 2010 oil platform catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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In the 2008 Presidential campaign, Sarah Palin flippantly outlined her proposal for getting more domestic oil in the US as "Drill Baby, Drill".
Palin was adamant that drilling in environmentally sensitive areas like Arctic National Wildlife Refuge [ANWR] was not only necessary but environmentally safe. On April 22, 2010, of course,
we were given yet another reminder of why drilling in environmentally sensitive areas is not safe. The catastrophe that will now go down in the history books as one
of the worlds worse oil spills was the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Ironically, this tragedy unfolded on Earth Day, a day we have
devoted to celebrating the intricacies and beauty of our natural environment. History, of course, is laced with incidents of environmental catastrophes at the
hands of oil spills. Consider the 68 million gallons of oil spilled in the Persian Gulf as the Amoco Cadiz tanker ran aground enroute to Le Havre (Begley, 2010).
Consider the 420,000 gallons per day that poured into the Gulf of Mexico over a period of almost a year when the exploratory oil well the Ixtoc I exploded
(Begley, 2010). Perhaps the most memorable recent event, of course, was the 10.9 million gallons that spilled from the hull of the Exxon Valdez on March 24, 1989 off
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