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...looks can deceive. According to biologists, Exxon's $2.5 billion cleanup effort was by no means as effective as the company has proclaimed. Many killer whales have vanished from Prince William Sound, while the social structure of the remaining groups appears to be breaking down. Several large colonies of murres, a seabird, have not produced any chicks in the years since the spill. Harlequin ducks, black oyster catchers and other animals have been contaminated by eating oil-drenched mussels, and sea-otter populations are hemorrhaging, literally and figuratively -- a side effect of hydrocarbon poisoning...
Part of the problem is the disaster's magnitude, but scientists and environmentalists charge that Exxon squandered vast sums on paperwork, ill- conceived cleanup techniques and heroic rescues. It cost the company about $80,000 for each of the several hundred otters it cleaned, many of which died anyway. The use of scalding-hot, pressurized seawater to hose down beaches left many areas almost sterile, empty of the limpets and other intertidal creatures that dwell there...
Unfortunately for Alaska, the windfall is far less than it seems. After deducting the sums owed to federal and state governments for past cleanup, litigation expenses and damage assessment, Alaska can expect just $635 million. How to spend it is the official business of the six-member oil spill trustee council, which includes the Alaska attorney general along with representatives from two state and three federal departments. The body has already come under fire. Alaskans claim that Washington's representatives are watching out for the Bush Administration's interests and that the council is unreceptive to the views...
HURRICANE ANDREW MAY HAVE BEEN THE MOST costly natural disaster in U.S. history, but it has triggered a modern American gold rush. Carpenters and contractors from as far away as Alaska are heading south to Florida to mine a $20 billion bonanza in reconstruction and cleanup work. "I traded in my high heels for steel toes ((construction shoes)) and headed down here a few days after the storm," said Roberta Heiberg, an estimator for an Arlington, Virginia, contracting firm. She got a Florida contractor's license in one day, advertised with a sign in her Holiday Inn window and made...
...every roof," says Councilwoman Lombard sourly. "We had 600 miles of ditch to be cleaned. To document it, we had to walk it. Dade's got 200 miles of canals. Rest assured that FEMA will make them swim it to document it." Though Bush promised total reimbursement for storm cleanup efforts, the island city of Key Biscayne is already % squabbling with FEMA about reimbursement for early debris removal...