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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...
...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 Island and New Jersey, ruptured and spewed out 567,000 gal. of No. 2 heating oil. Much of the fuel drifted into surrounding wetlands, which serve as a rookery for rare wading birds...
Exxon's mop-up team did earn modest praise for its effectiveness in soaking up some of the oil with cotton booms. By week's end Exxon had recovered about 130,000 gal., but the damage remains to be calculated. More than 300 birds have died, and if the oil destroys the area's marine organisms, several species of migratory birds may starve to death when they arrive in the spring for breeding...
...senior U.S. representative in Antarctica, but they are exaggerated. "Our behavior in the past was disgraceful -- by today's standards," he admits. "But we are doing much better. We're installing a primary waste-treatment facility at McMurdo this season. We've begun recycling. Yes, we lost 50,000 gal. of fuel recently, but we've recovered more than half of it." Last month McMurdo residents went patrolling for loose trash...
...huge gash in the hull of a supertanker off the northwest African coast, igniting a 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...