Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hottest current issue is how to handle Alaska's North Slope oil. Washington's four major refineries are located on the eastern shore of Puget Sound at Cherry Point, 100 miles north of Seattle and 75 miles inland from the sea. The refineries are now supplied by tankers limited in size by state law to 125,000 tons. The oil companies and Ray want the figure raised to 250,000 tons, arguing that the bigger loads would allow savings leading to lower prices for consumers. Surplus oil would be passed on to the Midwest by pipeline...
...mallards with oil on their wings." Ray points out that some 13 million migratory birds are shot by hunters every year and notes that the number that die from oil spills is minute by comparison. Furthermore, the Governor claims that oil dumped into cold waters, like those of the sound, would cause almost no lasting damage...
...view that the environmentalists tend to exaggerate the dangers is basically supported by George MacGinitie, the longtime (1932-57) director of Cal Tech's marine laboratories, who lives on the sound. But her statements flabbergast a number of her former colleagues at the University of Washington. A group of 79 scientists and graduate students have declared that a spill "would have serious consequences in Puget Sound." Robert Harman, professor of geology and geography, charges: "Her statements are either misguided, misinformed, naive or whatever. The bays and estuaries of Puget Sound have a tendency to keep oil trapped permanently. Every marine...
...coalition of environmentalists and state officials backs an alternate plan that would take the supertankers to Port Angeles, which is on the strait leading into Puget Sound in easily navigable waters. The oil would then be carried by pipeline around the southern shore of the sound ?some going on up to Cherry Point and the rest flowing to the Midwest. Ideally, the environmentalists would also like to stop all tanker traffic on Puget Sound. Senator Magnuson does not go that far, but he has succeeded in getting a measure passed in Congress and signed by President Carter that...
...picture-window view of a passing submarine, a rising mountain, a rippling lake or inlet-these, and more, are the fringe benefits enjoyed by many who reside around Puget Sound. Three examples of varied lifestyles...