Word: spill
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Flow through the Alaskan pipeline returned to its normal daily flow of 2.1 million barrels Wednesday, the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. said. Oil flow from the North Slope had been cut by 60 percent because the spill restricted tanker traffic in Valdez harbor, but traffic has increased...
Just on Opening Day, the hot dogs don't taste like cardboard, the bleacher bums say "Excuse me" when they spill beer on you, and the umpire, God forbid, is right...
...flippers drenched in oil clinging to a buoy near the wreck. By the time the leak had slowed to a dribble a day later, an estimated 270,000 bbl. of oil had escaped, producing a slick 8 miles long and 4 miles wide. It appeared to be the largest spill, if not the worst in terms of ecological damage, in U.S. history...
Aside from the damage to marine life, the spill seemed certain to have an impact in another area. Environmentalists will use the accident as ammunition in their fight against further oil development in Alaska, particularly U.S. plans to permit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
Emergency crews placed booms in the sound to contain the spill, and the Coast Guard dropped chemicals in an attempt to break up the slick. But local officials criticized Exxon and pipeline officials for responding slowly. Doug Griffin, city manager of Valdez, said the first teams to arrive waited for a leader to show up and take charge...