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...This is a mini-Alaska," declared New York Attorney General Robert Abrams, referring to last year's 11 million-gal. spill from the Exxon Valdez...
...Exxon plagued by bad luck or a bad attitude? After suffering three major accidents in just the past ten months, the largest U.S. oil company is earning a reputation as a careless and callous despoiler of the environment. Last week Exxon ran into a storm of criticism from New York State and New Jersey authorities when it was disclosed that the company's shoddy equipment and poor maintenance procedures helped cause one of the largest oil spills in the region's history. On New Year's Day a 12-in. pipeline running under the Arthur Kill waterway, which separates Staten...
Appallingly, Exxon workers were warned of the possibility of a rupture but did not act. The pipeline, which connects an Exxon refinery with storage tanks, had a leak-detection system in place that flashed an alarm when the accident occurred. But instead of shutting down the pipeline, which would have kept the spill to a minuscule amount, employees failed to take the alarm seriously for nearly six hours. Reason: the safety system was known to be defective and had frequently sent out false alarms...
...fire that forces the crew to abandon ship. For nearly two weeks, the leaking, foundering vessel is left to drift toward the rich fishing grounds and unspoiled beaches of Morocco. Some 19 million gal. of crude oil ooze into the sea, nearly twice the amount disgorged by the Exxon Valdez in Alaska last March. A replay of grim images -- gooey, blackened shorelines and oil-soaked animal corpses -- appears inevitable...
East Europeans grapple with the sobering task of political, economic and moral reconstruction. -- Violence in the south and separatism in the north make nationalism one of Moscow's most pressing problems. -- An Iranian tanker spills nearly twice as much oil as the Exxon Valdez, but the immediate impact on the environment is less dire than that of the Alaska mishap...