Brutal weather slows Alaska freighter search, spill cleanup
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When the freighter Kuroshima ran aground on Unalaska Island the day before Thanksgiving 1997, conditions were terrible for stopping an oil spill.
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DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska - In the first few days after 1989&#39;s Exxon Valdez disaster, fishermen were forced to fell trees and drop them across favored spawning streams to halt the spread of oil.
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The Coast Guard lowered a salvage team to a freighter that broke in two pieces when it ran aground off Alaskaâs coast, seen as a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles.
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Rough sea and bad weather have hampered efforts to deal with the oil spill from the freighter that split off the Aleutians last week.
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ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Air and ship crews were keeping an eye on an oil spill off the coast of Newfoundland Monday as containment crews waited out stormy weather to take action.
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West Coast residents struggled to dig and dry out from a winter storm system, even as more precipitation bore down on soaked towns from Puget Sound to San Diego.
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Authorities checked for fuel leaks Saturday on a coal freighter run aground by a storm that brought flooding, landslides and blackouts in eastern Australia. Two people whose car was swept off a bridge were killed, and a family of five was missing.
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THOUSANDS of gallons of heavy-duty oil were pouring from a grounded cargo ship off the Alaska coast last night in a disaster that appears to have claimed six lives and threatens an environmental catastrophe.
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Salvage teams fear for three stranded ships, with warnings of more bad weather across the country
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Heavy snow and storms caused chaos on the country's seas and roads Friday, prompting a rescue operation to airlift a seriously injured ship's captain from his vessel, officials said.
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Authorities checked for fuel leaks Saturday on a coal freighter run aground by a storm that brought flooding, landslides and blackouts in eastern Australia and killed at least five people.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people were ready  to begin cleaning up an oil spill threatening endangered  animals on Sunday, four days after a ship broke apart and six  people died in a helicopter rescue attempt.
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Bad weather is hampering efforts to salvage a lifeboat stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, off the Antrim coast.
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State and federal agencies scrambled Friday to limit the damage from an oil spill that left deposits on 21 miles of Puget Sound shoreline.
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Fuel oil is spilling out of a Malaysian freighter that snapped in two off the US state of Alaska, threatening the fragile ecocystem of the Aleutian islands.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and state officials said on  Saturday.
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By Tom Koenninger, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 7--ABOARD ESSAYONS -- A winter mix of rain and snow slashed across the deck of this ponderous ship as she moved downstream on the Columbia River, barely a whisper faster than the current.