Word: oil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crazy scheme to kill the swarms of grasshoppers that came with the drought got his ear. On a scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front of a Model A. The man dumped the collected hoppers in a pile, sprayed oil on them and triumphantly set them ablaze. Father, knowing the futility of the effort, still murmured his appreciation of such energy and ingenuity, wrote the facts down in his little notebook. Story printed with picture...
...Rejected Alaska's attempt to stop offshore oil and gas exploration in Bristol Bay. The state had argued that an oil spill there could do more environmental harm than the massive Exxon Valdez spill last March...
Father John MacInnis, a chaplain at the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center, whose office is directly next to the parking lot, said that "the waste was a combination of fuel oil tanks left over from the houses that used to be on the property and lead from the lead paint on those same houses...
Quincy House Master Michael Shinagel, said he was unconcerned about the hazardous waste. "It is simply oil that will be trucked away. It's not going to be a problem," he said. "We are more concerned with the noise and destruction of our private life that the new housing might cause...
After spending six months and $1 billion, Exxon shut down its cleanup of the nation's worst oil spill. But no one knows how long it will take Prince William Sound to recover fully...