Alaskan oil worth millions cost over $2 billion to clean up after this ship's 1989 spill
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The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill  Alyeska is a consortium of eight firms that operates the Trans-Alaska pipeline ... When the Valdez terminal had begun operations, an oil spill contingency ... Coast Guard regulations require that persons operating a ship not have a level over .04. ... the firm had spent $2 billion to clean up the spill, while insurance companies...
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company news; exxon estimating $1.28 billion cost for spill cleanup  Jul 25, 1989 ... The giant oil company, releasing its earnings report for the second quarter ... William Sound when the tanker ran aground off the coast of Alaska. ... set aside $30 million to cover damage to the ship and loss of its cargo. ... to pump 150,000 gallons of water per minute over hundreds of miles of oiled beaches.
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Exxon Valdez oil spill - Wikipedia  The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on Good Friday, March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker ... According to official reports, the ship was carrying approximately 55 million US gallons (210,000 .... Exxon was widely criticized for its slow response to cleaning up the disaster and John...
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Oil Spills by the Numbers | Center for American Progress  Apr 30, 2010 ... Louisiana's seafood industry alone is worth $2 billion annually. ... The most expensive oil spill in history is the EXXON VALDEZ (Alaska, 1989). Cleanup alone cost in the region of US $2.5 billion and total costs (including fines ... central Alaska and by 35 percent in southwest Alaska in the year after the spill.
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Exxon Alaska Cleanup May Be All Over - latimes  Sep 23, 1990 ... After a second summer of difficult, unpleasant labors in this embattled ... it quits for the year--maybe forever--in the cleanup of America's worst oil spill. After ... Joseph Hazelwood and his ship, the Exxon Valdez, into the 21st Century. ... The summer 1989 cleanup costs were fixed by the company at $2 billion.
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Was the Alaska Purchase a Good Deal? - The University of Iowa  The purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million, ridiculed in 1867 as  .... Americans may have received many non-financial benefits from the Alaska .... areas. Again, these resources would have been available to American tourists ...... Senate approved the treaty by a vote of 37 to 2, but the appropriation of funds to.
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Portal:Alaska/Selected article - Wikipedia  The resurgence of recreational mushing in Alaska since the 1970s is a direct .... The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on ... of oil at Prudhoe Bay and the 1977 completion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline led to an oil boom. ... Enormous gold dredges were built north of Fairbanks, and the city grew...
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The world's worst offshore oil rig disasters - Offshore Technology  Jan 2, 2014 ... The world's 10 deadliest offshore oil rig disasters ... The Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea, UK, which killed 167 people in July 1988, is the ... flanges causing gas ignition and serial explosions on the platform. ... The Ocean Ranger oil drilling rig disaster which occurred in the North Atlantic Sea off the...
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Crude Awakening' - Washington Times  Nov 4, 2011 ... It was a rush by politicians and lobbyists to transform the sleepy, quiet, ... off so much money that the state's power players did not know what to do with it. ... It gives me an idea of just how foolhardy people in Alaska can be - and ... If you want to understand the power of the King Kong of minerals, oil, once it...
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The 13 largest oil spills in history | MNN - Mother Nature Network  Jul 16, 2010 ... We can see how the Gulf oil spill, the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, stacks ... This large oil spill occurred about 700 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland ... being hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, but was put back into operation. .... 13 cats with the biggest eyes you've ever seen.
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jeopardy/2403_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  HISTORIC AMERICANS | At its peak, this Standard Oiler's personal fortune was estimated at over $1 billion dollars | John D. Rockefeller. right: Kit. Wrong:.
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Alaskan Oil Fields Provide Cool Jobs For A Hardy Breed ...  Sep 22, 1987 ... PRUDHOE BAY, ALASKA  First the good news for the folks who work ... the bonanza strike that feeds America`s famous Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Here at the north end of the 800-mile-long pipeline that connects the fields on Alaska`s Arctic coast with the far-away Pacific port city of ... Now the bad news.
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Trans-Alaska Pipeline System - Wikipedia  The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) includes the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, ... The pipeline was built between 1974 and 1977 after the 1973 oil crisis .... During the voyage, the ship suffered damage to several of its cargo holds, .... President Richard Nixon signed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA).
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1964 Alaska earthquake - Wikipedia  Areas affected, United States, Canada. Total damage, $311 million. Max. intensity, XI (Extreme). Peak acceleration, 0.18 g. Casualties, 139 killed. The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and Good Friday ... the magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake was the most powerful recorded in...
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Old Salt Blog - Page 45 of 193 - a virtual port of call for all those who ...  Apr 10, 2014 ... I am saddened that the boat that was their home was lost. ... in the Pacific roughly 900 nautical miles off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. ..... On March 24, 1989, the 210,000 dwt crude oil tanker Exxon Valdez sailed from ... At 12:04 am, the single hulled ship ran aground on Bligh Reef, resulting in the...
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Fairbanks Daily News-Miner from Fairbanks, Alaska  Page 14  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska), Thursday, April 25, 1968, Page 14. ... police field force is budgeted at $19.1 million, plus $297,000 to train Vietnamese police in the United States. ... Find out If your manner of going about things could be at fault. .... Business Opportunities DO YOU nave a mineral discovery?
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jeopardy/1171_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  AMERICAN HISTORY | Americans began to occupy this even before we could send Russia the $7.2 million we paid for it | Alaska. right: Margaret. Wrong:.
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Alaska's Oregonian law | The Legal Genealogist  Aug 25, 2015 ... That's when the United States bought Alaska from Russia for the grand sum of $7.2 million. ... in Alaska, by what's called the 1884 Organic Act: An Act providing a ... There's no definitive source explaining why Oregon law was chosen, ... He claims that after the purchase from the Russians in 1867 what is...
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Details about the Accident - Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council  Published February 1990 by the State of Alaska ... Tankers carrying North Slope crude oil had safely transited Prince William ... Until the Exxon Valdez piled onto Bligh Reef, the system designed to carry 2 million barrels of North Slope oil ... March 23, 1989 was a rest day of sorts for some members of the Exxon Valdez crew.
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Trans-Alaska Pipeline: Lessons for the Keystone XL Pipeline Debate  Nov 18, 2014 ... To date, the Alaska Pipeline has transported 17 billion barrels of oil, worth more than ... Only after Congress passed and the President signed legislation that removed ... environs during construction, operation, and maintenance of the oil pipeline. .... The energy crisis helped to spur Congress into action.
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Destination Yisra'el  Jerusalem is again going to be the city where G-d dwells among His people ..... About 12:04 am one March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez Oil Tanker ran aground on ... and covered over 11,000 square miles along 1,300 miles of native shoreline. ...... 2010 Outlook from a group of 25 European Economists with a 90% accuracy...