Oil+Spills

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An oil spill is the release of petroleum products into the environment due to shipping, waste management, manufacturing and drilling. Oil spills are polluted into the sea in many ways. Some examples are: pipeline breaks, ship collision or groundings, overfilling of fuel tanks, pumping from ships, leaking underground storage tank. When countries are at war, one country may decide to dump gallons of oil into the other country’s oceans. Terrorists may cause an oil spill because they will dump oil into a country’s ocean. Many terrorists will do this because they are trying to get the country’s attention, or they are trying to make a point to a country. Illegal dumpers are people that will dump crude oil into the oceans because they do not want to spend money on decomposing their waste oil. They do this because they won’t spend money on decompsing up the oil, instead they will dump oil into the oceans, which is illegal. Natural disasters especially huricanes may cause an oil spill too. If a hurricane was a couple of miles away, the winds from the hurricane could cause the oil tanker to flip over thus pouring oil out. ​