Three decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska’s coast faces an even bigger threat

Three decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska’s coast faces an even bigger threat

Posted by on Mar 25, 2019 @ 9:39 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: March 25, 2019

For three days in March 1989, the oil — at least 11 million gallons of it, though some say much more — had lain like a still pool around the ship, virtually untouched by cleanup efforts. Now the storm clawed the oil across the sound’s tracery of rocky islands, into their infinite crevices, and ultimately over more than 1,000 miles of rich coastal wilderness. The story...

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Legal challenges over Exxon Valdez sputter to an end

Posted by on Oct 20, 2015 @ 2:31 pm in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: October 20, 2015

When the sun set just after 8 pm on March 23, 1989, nothing was amiss in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. The ocean lapped at rocky, seaweed-strewn beaches, boats dotted the horizon, and thousands of sea otters floated serenely on their backs. But all that changed the following morning, when the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground and hemorrhaged 11 million gallons of crude...

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