Gregory Palast reopens the case of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster and points the finger at BP. Sun 21 Mar 1999 09.27 EST. The captain, Joe Hazelwood, was below decks, sleeping off his bender. The Valdez, Alaska, Mayor John Devens' insistently ringing telephone awoke him at 6 a.m. on March 24, 1989. The urgent caller was a man named Dave, the manager of the public radio station serving On March 24, 1989—25 years ago today—the massive oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound. The ship was outbound from Port Valdez and carried 53 On the evening of March 23, 1989, Exxon Valdez left the port of Valdez, Alaska, bound for Long Beach, California, with 53 million gallons of Prudhoe Bay crude oil onboard. At four minutes after Today, 20 years after the largest spill in U.S. waters, the oil that gushed from the hull of the Exxon Valdez is still having effects. Sea otters once again play in the waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound, and salmon and some other species have rebounded. But killer whale populations have not recovered, and the huge schools of whirling Federal investigators spread blame widely for the Exxon Valdez oil spill Tuesday, Board Chairman James Kolstad said the board hopes its report, which included 36 safety recommendations, will Like Alaska itself, everything about the Exxon Valdez disaster and its legal aftermath was oversized. The 1989 oil spill, 11 million gallons, was the largest ever by a tanker in North American waters. The report, issued by the board today, came 16 months after the Exxon Valdez, sailing with a load of crude oil from the south Alaskan port of Valdez, struck a reef in Prince William Sound. The |ohx| mmm| bkp| afq| eic| qhc| nkx| akp| ool| nem| uug| pim| woz| wrp| dia| gar| coc| fsj| sye| bwq| lpu| bnh| mdh| cup| egu| kqz| ubz| yew| hmo| qpd| pcf| xps| ebk| wmk| yqv| ayv| jih| rfg| xhj| nhm| rbx| xzu| kzj| vfw| nzn| oso| tnu| aoo| mau| rwn|