lizards Assignment - R Consider the question in the last sentence of the scenario. How would react to this if you are an executive for the oil company?Also explain if this an ethics question, legal qu

The state of Texas leads the United States in crude oil production. West Texas, in particular, is home to the largest oil deposit ever discovered in the continental United States. With an estimated 20 billion barrels of oil, valued at more than $900 billion, West Texas has become a mecca for oil and gas companies. Warm weather, a sophisticated labor and equipment industry, and favorable geological formations all contribute to efficient drilling productions in West Texas. Numerous reservoirs can be drilled simultaneously through a process called fracking, in which a high-pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals is forcefully injected into the rock, causing gas to be released. Texas oil drilling helps oil and gas companies, boosts the Texas and U.S. economies, adds jobs, increases exports, reduces imports, and lowers gas prices for everybody. These touted benefits make the oil drilling seem like a good, ethical practice, but there is a dark side.

What many don’t know is that the unique sand used in fracking in West Texas is also home to the dunes sagebrush lizard, a 3-inch long, tan-colored animal that lives only in a small portion of a few counties in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico. The pretty, picky little lizard may soon be added to the federal endangered species list; more than half of the lizard’s habitat has been taken over by miners and drillers, such as big Ben Brigham. Brigham has made hundreds of millions of dollars as a Texas oilman and claims to be working with biologists to recreate the sagebrush lizard’s habitat and relocate the lizards to a new area that resembles the lizard’s home ecosystem. From an internal analysis perspective, do you think Brigham’s established oil-drilling operations and current production procedures that yield the benefits described offset the possibility of the sagebrush lizard becoming extinct? Investors, environmentalists, and policy makers are meeting in hopes of finding an appropriate solution.