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Apex Oil Spill - GRP Learning Paper

An oil spill of 4 million barrels occurred off the coast of Apex Oil Corporation. This spill damaged 100 miles of beaches and coastal wildlife, killing many fish, crabs, and birds. Fishing was banned for 2 years and tourism dropped 90%, hurting the local economy. While Apex Oil took responsibility for cleanup, they refused to pay other costs or face prosecution under endangered species laws. A committee discussed the fate of offshore drilling, future of oil production, and Apex Oil's accountability, but failed to reach agreement due to an uncooperative clique dominated by the Assistant to the CM, State Environment Director, and Environmental Defence representative.

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Apex Oil Spill - GRP Learning Paper

An oil spill of 4 million barrels occurred off the coast of Apex Oil Corporation. This spill damaged 100 miles of beaches and coastal wildlife, killing many fish, crabs, and birds. Fishing was banned for 2 years and tourism dropped 90%, hurting the local economy. While Apex Oil took responsibility for cleanup, they refused to pay other costs or face prosecution under endangered species laws. A committee discussed the fate of offshore drilling, future of oil production, and Apex Oil's accountability, but failed to reach agreement due to an uncooperative clique dominated by the Assistant to the CM, State Environment Director, and Environmental Defence representative.

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Apex Oil spill

A. Summary of the Assignment


The assignment centred on the learnings of the Article Breaking Roberts rules: Consensus
building techniques for group decision. The Assignment was in essence a simulation of the
entire procedure of process consulting. Groups of seven were made and assigned one of the
following roles:
1. Assistant to Chief Minister 5.Environmental Defence representative
2. State Economic Development Director 6.Change Agent/Practitioner
3. State Environment Director 7.Observer
4. Petroleum Industry Representative
Brief Overview of the case assigned
An accident has occurred at Apex Oil Corporation where close to 4 million barrels of heavy
crude oil have spilled into the coastal waters due to underwater oil pipeline splitting open
and the subsequent delay by the technicians in raising an alarm The accident has had a very
adverse effect on the 100 miles of beaches and the coastal wildlife that exists in the area
with a large number of fishes, crabs and birds dying. Attempts to rescue these animals have
proved to be futile so far owing to oil ingestion. The backbone of the economies in the four
coastal areas, Fishing and Tourism have also suffered greatly with fishing activities banned
for 2 years and tourism volumes down by 90%.Additionally,All off shore oil production units
have been temporarily closed down adding to the burden on the economy. Apex Oil
Corporation has taken full responsibility for the event and has in a public statement taken
full responsibility of the cleanup operations and the financing of the animal rescue centres.
They have however refused to pay for the incidental expenses and also refused to come to
trial for the violation of the laws pertaining to the killing of endangered or threatened
species as instances of accidental killing did not come under the purview of the Law. Some
of the Locals have found employment in the cleanup operations. Various stakeholders are
now worried about the slow pace of Apexs cleanup and its alleged nefarious connections
with the CM. Additionally the Injunction by the State Environment Director is causing a lot
of financial loss to the state as under the terms of the injunction, the off shore Oil
production units will have to remain closed until the preliminary investigation report is
submitted which could take anything up to a year or longer
The Group met as a committee and had a discussion about the issue along the following
lines:
1. Fate of Off shore drilling operations in the state
2. Future of Oil production in the state
3. Culpability and extent of accountability of Apex Oil Corporation when it came to bearing
all direct and indirect costs
Group Experience
The exercise began with all group members introducing themselves as the roles that they
had been allocated post which the Assistant to Chief Minister put forth the agenda of the
meeting. The meeting began with the discussion of the case facts. However as the
discussion progressed, a strong clique appeared to emerge in the form of the Assistant to
the CM, the State Environment Director and the Environmental Defence representative.
Also, the State Environment Director and the Environmental Director seemed to function as
a single team, reinforcing each others points. Despite the Change agents repeated efforts
the refusal of these two members to arrive at a solution that would be beneficial to most of
the stakeholders, The meeting concluded without any concrete solution arising out of the
discussion

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