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Necessary Precedence. They were wrong. Environmentalists set up an outcry that such a massive explosion, five times as powerful as the previous Amchitka blast in 1969, might trigger an earthquake or, in case of a blowout, contaminate the area with radioactive fallout. Committees were formed, suits were filed, studies were conducted by Government agencies. Politicians, diplomats and strategists were consulted...
...their tight little island. No alcohol, not even beer, is permitted on board. Fighting means immediate dismissal; lateness to a post a severe reprimand. Always, the threat of death or serious injury is with the crew. Two months ago, about 100 miles away on the gulf, a fiery blowout on one platform killed six men and destroyed 20 operating wells. Several veteran roustabouts have fingers missing from accidents. Last September, a roustabout was killed when a 600-lb. section of pipe fell and crushed his skull...
Still upset by the 1969 Santa Barbara Channel blowout, which discharged 336,000 gallons of crude oil, Californians faced an even worse spill last week. This time two Standard Oil of California tankers collided in dense fog under Golden Gate Bridge and drifted helplessly into San Francisco Bay. With a 40-ft. gash in her hull, the Oregon Standard gushed 1,000,000 gallons of bunker fuel oil that soon coated beaches and wildlife sanctuaries for 50 miles of the coast. Some people were so incensed at Standard Oil that they hurled plastic bags full of oil at the company...
Hickel soon proved that he possessed the "extra dimension" that Nixon ascribed to all his department heads. Only days after he took office, an oil blowout began fouling the waters of the Santa Barbara Channel. Hickel refused to order the drilling stopped, then visited the scene and reversed his decision. Later he prompted costly lawsuits against the Chevron Oil Co. after oil fires along the Louisiana coast. Said Hickel: "I found the man who pulled the plug." At Hickel's instigation, the Justice Department also sued eight companies accused of contaminating navigable waters with mercury. Despite a parochial interest...
...thing was that a mere change in the weather-an unexpected late-September hot spell-could bring one of the world's largest electric systems so close to total blowout. Public utility companies, which have encouraged customers to buy more appliances to consume more power, now plead that they must build more power plants to meet the increased need. Conservationists stress that more power plants will increasingly foul the already poisonous air. Partly because of the bad city air, architects design buildings with windows permanently closed. Thus massive air-conditioning systems must dangerously draw ever heavier loads of power...