discussion
Click on the following link http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/spain/ and watch the following Frontline Video.
In the discussion forum please consider the following points and when arguing your position in the discussion forum you must support your argument.
Spain: The Lawless Sea – Investigating a notorious shipwreck
• Why are ships on the sea so hard to regulate? What is it about the ocean that renders governments less effective?
• How rational is our current system, where oil producers and consumers are so isolated from each other? What alternatives can you imagine to our current practice of shipping a flammable liquid in huge ships?
• Who do you think should pay for the Prestige incident? The shipping company that owned the vessel? The countries to whom oil is being delivered? Spain, the country that suffered the oil spill? Liberia, the country that flagged the ship? More generally, who should pay for environmental disasters like this?
See Course Schedule.
Additional sites you can investigate to better inform your discussion.
Web Sites
• http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2052398,00.html
Time magazine’s photo essay of the Prestige oil spill
• http://www.accede.org/prestige/prestige-eng.htm
A Galician Web site devoted to the after effects of the spill
• http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/library/research-analysis-reports/global-oil-choke-points?library_node=70245
Global chokepoints for oil tankers where danger is most imminent
• http://www.itopf.com/stats.html
International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Web site – contains statistics about amount of oil spilled in 20 major events, including maps and charts
• http://www.georesources.co.uk/oilspill.htm
Puts tanker spills in context of other forms of oil pollution – includes listing of 50 biggest spills in history as well as photos