Post by Ebony on Mar 8, 2006 20:21:27 GMT 1
New Disaster Strikes Alaska’s North Slope
What could potentially be the worst oil spill in history on Alaska’s North Slope was discovered last week after a BP oil operator noticed signs of a spill at a caribou migration site. Three days later, response workers finally found the source of the spill -- a breach in an oil transit pipeline feeding into the larger trans-Alaska oil pipeline. At least one report from an industry expert has indicated that up to 798,000 gallons of crude oil could be unaccounted for, which could make this second in Alaska only to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
What could potentially be the worst oil spill in history on Alaska’s North Slope was discovered last week after a BP oil operator noticed signs of a spill at a caribou migration site. Three days later, response workers finally found the source of the spill -- a breach in an oil transit pipeline feeding into the larger trans-Alaska oil pipeline. At least one report from an industry expert has indicated that up to 798,000 gallons of crude oil could be unaccounted for, which could make this second in Alaska only to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
