Corporations
Human/Environmental effects
Species affected
100
What Gas station/Corporation is this?
Hint: The logo
What is shell?
100
What are some effects of Shell?
Hint: Carbon Dioxide
(OPEN ANSWER)
"In 2020, Shell disclosed emissions of 1,377 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. Its planned emissions from 2018 to 2030 are estimated to account for close to 1.6% of the global 1.5°C carbon budget."
100
What large species is most well known for living in "Arctic tundra and the boreal forests...of Alaska and Canada"?
What are Caribou?
200
What Gas station/corporation is this?
Hint: Starts with C
What is Chevron?
200
What are some effects of Chevron?
Hint: 1964 to 1990, large amounts of waste (be specific)
(OPEN ANSWER)
While drilling during the aforementioned years "it deliberately dumped more than 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, spilled roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil, and left hazardous waste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the forest floor."
200
Aquatic species, with 90% living in Alaska’s coastal waters
What is an Otter?
300
Gas station starting with the letter E or M
Hint: Not Maverick
Apart of the same corporation
What is Exxon or Mobil?
300
What are some effects of Exxon or Mobil?
Hint: Operations in Guyana
(OPEN ANSWER)
As mentioned, ExxonMobil had/has gone into Guyana in order to extract/drill mass amounts of oil. A direct effect from this is that it "will send more than 2 bn metric tons of climate-destroying CO2 into the atmosphere. "
300
Well known species affected by general climate change
Hint: Ice caps melting
What is a Polar Bear?
400
What Oil company is this?
Hint: Infamous for an oil spill in 2010 (Gulf of Mexico)
What is BP?
400
What are some effects of BP?
Hint: Gulf of Mexico, largest oil spill in U.S history
(OPEN ANSWER)
In 2010, BP oil after the "blowout and explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform," there was around an estimated " total discharge at 4.9 million barrels (210,000,000 US gal)"
The entire situation caused 11 people to be killed and 17 people to be injured. Along with this, there was extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats, along with effects to fishing and tourism industries.
400
Species that is in the artic
Unable to survive only in water, but due to melting ice, they may go extinct.
What are Seals?
500
The world's largest Oil Corporation?
Hint: Located in the Middle East
What is Aramco (Saudi Aramco)?
Fun Fact!: Aramco "has a market capitalization of $1.98 trillion as of February 9, 2024".
500
What are some effects of Aramco?
Hint: Billions of...
(OPEN ANSWER)
An estimation of around 27 Billion tons of Carbon Dioxide between the years 2018 and 2030
Along with this, they have attributed 4.38% of historic carbon emissions
Fact: "Aramco operates over 100 oil and gas fields."
500
Bird species in western and northern Alaska
Hint: Starting with Yellow
What are Yellow-billed loons?