Itzel Verónica Otero
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Sociedad y Política de Estados Unidos
27 de febrero de 2013
Sociedad y Política de Estados Unidos
27 de febrero de 2013
In today’s Washington Post there is an article
that talks about the abandonment of Arctic drilling by the multinational oil
and gas company, Shell. In this article is said that “this is a temporary
cease-fire in one of the nation’s fiercest political battles over energy
development and environmental protection”. This problem started years ago when
the company construction problems and equipment failures delayed the plans to
drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean and after an oil spill containment dome
failed and the . Coast Guard started to investigate the Noble Discoverer for
criminally inadequate pollution and safety controls.
It is a fact that Shell's attempt
was widely seen as a test case for future offshore Arctic drilling, and other
companies may try to do the same experiment. Meanwhile, the resent decision
about the exploratory drilling in the Chukchi and Beafort Seas is seen as a
pause because as the president of the corporation said, the company has made
progress in Alaska, but since it is a long-term program that they want to pursue
in a safe and measured way to avoid the problems they had in 2012 and; in order
to make sure that this drilling will provide benefits both to the State of
Alaska and the nation as a whole the company will ensure a safe return to the exploration.
On the other hand, the article says
that the environmentalist think that the drilling shouldn’t be made because of
the harsh conditions and the environmental damage that has been caused in the
Arctic Ocean so here is where I can point out what the authors of American Society says about negative
externalities and collective action failures that emphasize the actions of
individuals and firms, pursuing their own interests in a strategic and rational
way within markets, generate economic and environmental inefficiencies of
various sorts.
In conclusion, The United States is
a very important country because of its industrialization, its consumerism, because
of its desire to work and achieve the American dream but it is also known as a
Country with lots of debt, security issues, peace keeping problems and
political issues too but if they want to keep their place in the ranking of the
best countries in the world they must have also auto sufficiency on energy and I
believe that that’s of the reasons why president Obama had made lots of improvements
on the research and deployment of clean energy but since it is very expensive
and the whole industry still needs oil and gas, the United States are looking
for alternatives to spend money not only on buying these recourses from other countries
but also on extracting these recourses from their own territory but the government
also has to deal with the environmental groups who defend a different kind of
interests so, president Obama has to deal with them and make sure it won’t
cause more troubles because of negative externalities so that these groups
support him too.
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