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wake up bp down by 9% come on every one April 29 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc will bear the costs associated with an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that the Obama administration has declared an event of national significance. While BP is ultimately responsible for funding the cost of response and cleanup operations, my administration will continue to use every single available resource at our disposal, President Barack Obama said in remarks at the White House. The president said hes ordered the secretaries of interior and homeland security and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to go to the region to oversee the effort to contain and clean up the spill and determine its cause. The leak, caused by an explosion on a drilling rig last week, is spewing about 5000 barrels of crude oil a day, five times more than previously estimated. US officials said the slick may reach the Gulf Coast as early as tomorrow. The effort to combat the leak and skim crude from the sea is costing BP and its partners in the well $6 million a day. Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes said the effort to choke off the leak from a well in 5000 feet of water may take as long as 90 days. At the current leak rate, by the third week of June the spill will exceed the volume dumped after the Exxon Valdez hit a reef off Alaskas Prince William Sound in 1989. BP is required to cover the costs of the spill under the 1990 Oil Pollution Act, drafted after the Exxon Valdez incident. Agencies Mobilized ...
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...of the worst man-made environmental disasters. The Exxon Valdez poured nearly 11 million gallons of crude into Alaska's Prince William Sound, devastating some 750 miles (1,300 kilometres) of its once pristine shores. Rescue crews for the current disaster toiled...
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On March 23, 1989 the Exxon Valdez an oil supertanker operated by Exxon left the port of Valdez headed for Long beach, CA with almost 54 million gallons of crude oil on board. Shortly after midnight on March 24, 1989, the supertanker collided with Bligh Reef, a well known navigation hazard, ruptured 8 of its 11 cargo tanks and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine waters of Prince William Sound. The result was catastrophic. Although the spill was radioed in shortly after the collision Exxons response was slow. In fact, there was no recovery effort for three days while Exxon searched for clean up equipment. During that time millions of gallons of oil began to spread down the coast. Days later as the clean up effort began the oil slick was no longer containable. It eventually extended 470 miles to the southwest, contaminated hundreds of miles of coastline. For more information on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill go to the Website - Sound Truth and Corporate Myths: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill at www.soundtruth.info This website is from Riki Ott, PhD, a marine oil pollution expert and former commercial fisherman in Alaska's Prince William Sound. She was on the scene before, during, and after the Exxon Valdez oil spill and experienced firsthand the spill's effects, including environmental devastation, economic losses to the fishing industry, and psychosocial trauma to the close-knit community. For a look at worker health and safety issues during the ...
This cleanup was the first done under OSHA's then recent Hazwoper regulation and maybe the first time an OSHA program went into voluntary compliance mode (like the agency later did during the World Trade Center cleanup and Katrina). Contact me for more information on worker health and safety issues during this spill. I was living in Alaska at the time and worked with the Alaska Laborers Union on occupational health and safety concerns during the cleanup. My email is mdcatlin@earthlink.net . For a detailed federal government review of worker health and safety issues, read the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) report, Alaska Oil Spill Health Hazard Evaluation (HETA 89-200 & 89-273-2111), published in May 1991 and available on the NIOSH website at www.cdc.gov . For more information on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill go to the Website - Sound Truth and Corporate Myths: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill at www.soundtruth.info This website is from Riki Ott, PhD, a marine oil pollution expert and former commercial fisherman in Alaskas Prince William Sound. She was on the scene before, during, and after the Exxon Valdez oil spill and experienced firsthand the spills effects, including environmental devastation, economic losses to the fishing industry, and psychosocial trauma to the close-knit community. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (EVOS) Workers Exxons Collateral Damage Exxon Authorize the Toxic Chemicals for Spraying Alaskas Oily Beaches which has caused ...
A commercial salmon "fisherma'am," Dr. Riki Ott (PhD in marine biology) experienced firsthand the devastating effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill—and chose to do something about it. Ott retired from fishing and founded three nonprofit organizations to deal with lingering harm. She is the author of Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. She lives in Cordova, Alaska. In the early 1970s, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens promised Cordova fishermen "not one drop" of oil would be spilled in Prince William Sound from proposed tanker traffic and the trans-Alaska pipeline project. Fishermen knew better. Spanning nearly 40 years, Not One Drop is an extraordinary tale of ordinary people who take on the worlds richest oil companies and most powerful politicians to protect Prince William Sound from oil accidents. Author Riki Ott, a rare combination of commercial salmon "fisherma'am" and PhD marine biologist, describes the firsthand impact of this broken promise when the Exxon Valdez oil spill decimated Cordova, Alaska, a small commercial fishing community set in 38000 square miles of rugged Alaska wilderness. Ott illustrates in stirring fashion the oil industrys 20-year trail of pollution and deception that led to the tragic 1989 spill and delves deep into the disruption to the fishing community for the next 10 years. In vivid detail, she describes the human trauma coupled inextricably with that of the Sounds wildlife and its struggle to recover ...
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska 1989 en.wikipedia.org
More than one in ten oil spill cleanup worker were injuried or became ill from the work cleaning up after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, This cleanup was the first done under OSHA's then recent Hazwoper regulation and maybe the first time an OSHA program went into voluntary compliance mode (like the agency later did during the World Trade Center cleanup and Katrina) Contact me for more information on worker health and safety issues during this spill. I was living in Alaska at the time and worked with the Alaska Laborers Union on occupational health and safety concerns during the cleanup. My email is mdcatlin@verizon.net . For a detailed federal government review of worker health and safety issues, read the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) report, Alaska Oil Spill Health Hazard Evaluation (HETA 89-200 & 89-273-2111), published in May 1991 and available on the NIOSH website at www.cdc.gov . For more information on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill go to the Website - Sound Truth and Corporate Myths: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill at www.soundtruth.info This website is from Riki Ott, PhD, a marine oil pollution expert and former commercial fisherman in Alaska's Prince William Sound. She was on the scene before, during, and after the Exxon Valdez oil spill and experienced firsthand the spill's effects, including environmental devastation, economic losses to the fishing industry, and psychosocial trauma to the close-knit community.
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...SEATTLE (AP) -- The 1989 Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound. The Puget Sound is being impacted nearly as much from stormwater runoff, which washes away between 6.3 million and 8 million gallons of petroleum...
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