Bhopal disaster

27 years ago, back in December 3 1984, happened a terrible tragedy. The lethal gas methyl isocyanate (MIC) alongside other noxious fumes had been released to the city of Bhopal and killed thousands of people, which is approximate 25,000 lives. Gross negligence by Union Carbide is widely viewed as the cause of the tragedy.

Figure 1: Overview of events that led to the Bhopal disaster

The Bhopal disaster was the result of a combination of legal, technological, organizational, and human errors. The toxic gases had been escaped from the plant to the surroundings in liquid and vapor form. The early effects were vomiting and burning sensations in the eyes, nose and throat, and most deaths have been attributed to respiratory failure.

The following video by National Geographic has shown the real situation of Bhopal disaster happens in 1984:

I think that the party that need to be responsible is the Union Carbide India limited company (UCIL). This is because UCIL attempts to reduce expenses and thus affected the employee's working condition. UCIL also does not have good equipment tight safety regulations and thus causes this incident to happen. Therefore, UCIL should be fully responsible of this incident as they causes many people in Bhopal died. This can also be a reference for other chemical factory or company so that they must have a safety regulations and always take care of the employees so that the same incident will not repeat again.

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Oil Spill in US

At April 20 2010,US experienced the worst oil spill in their history. There were approximately 15,000 of oil bring spewed each day into the Gulf of Mexico. This incident was caused by British Petroleum (BP) company and caused the creatures in the sea died as a result of lack of oxygen under the sea. The oil always caused the gulf unable to fly and being stuck in the sea and unable to search for food to survive.

President Obama has been pressurizing BP to do all it can to stop the leak as soon as possible. BP tried to stop the oil spill with the method known as "top kill" which involved the injection of heavy drilling heavy mud into the leaking well. The effect of this "top kill" method were positive.

The following video shows the oil spill incident happens in Gulf of Mexico:





The following video shows that the oil spill has causes many birds and sea creatures suffered and died.



From this incident, I feel angry and disappointed with the BP company which caused this incident happened. I think BP company should be more responsible and pay more attention to make sure there will not be any leaks happens because the effect of the incident of oil leaks will causes many life to be sacrificed. Thousands of innocent sea creatures and birds were died and it will gives a big impact to our ecosystem. It may eventually causes distinction of those animals.

More pictures on the oil spill incident: