Oil-Spill Prevention Tugboat Wrecks On Same Reef As Exxon Valdez

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[Merle Savage]

09:58 PM on 12/27/2009

Workers cleaning Prince William Sound's oily rocks from the tug boat's spill need to know about the toxic fumes from the fuel. Their health could be in jeopardy like the workers from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. The diesel fuel is reported not harmful to breathe, and that is what Exxon said about the crude oil in 1989, but workers from that cleanup are still suffering.

Exxon authorize the hot water and toxic chemical spraying on Alaska’s oily beaches. Exxon Collateral Damage 10,000+ victims of the cleanup have been struggling with health issues for 20 Years, without any compensation. Illnesses include neurological impairment, chronic respiratory disease, leukemia, lymphoma, brain tumors, liver damage, and blood diseases.

My name is Merle Savage; I was a female general foreman during the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill beach cleanup in Alaska.

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[Merle Savage]

09:56 PM on 12/27/2009

Workers cleaning Prince William Sound's oily rocks from the tug boat's spill need to know about the toxic fumes from the fuel. Their health could be in jeopardy like the workers from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. The diesel fuel is reported not harmful to breathe, and that is what Exxon said about the crude oil in 1989, but workers from that cleanup are still suffering.

Exxon authorize the hot water and toxic chemical spraying on Alaska’s oily beaches. Exxon Collateral Damage 10,000+ victims of the cleanup have been struggling with health issues for 20 Years, without any compensation. Illnesses include neurological impairment, chronic respiratory disease, leukemia, lymphoma, brain tumors, liver damage, and blood diseases.

My name is Merle Savage; I was a female general foreman during the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill beach cleanup in Alaska.

View the real story below.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5632208859935499100
http://www.silenceinthesound.com/gallery.shtml
http://www.silenceinthesound.com/stories.shtml

[Christian Cullen]

07:16 PM on 12/26/2009

D'oh ! ! !

[jdrourke]

04:22 PM on 12/26/2009

Huh. How's that for irony...?

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/

[Khal]

04:16 PM on 12/26/2009

Isn't there a tech solution to this problem. Couldn't they install a GPS system that sounds a warning when you get too close to the reef or the shore?

Does GPS work that far north?

[silvercreeklady]

04:56 PM on 12/26/2009

OMG!!! I cannot believe you actually said that?

[Khal]

12:19 PM on 12/27/2009

Thanks

I looked up the GPS system. It works worldwide. Since I do not use it, I never had a reason to look that up. I thought that the satellites may be located over the equator, and therefore may not work that far north. I know now that is not the case.

Thanks again.

[Barrelhse]

12:10 AM on 12/26/2009

Well, maybe they should paint the reef bright orange so people could By God see it.

[mados123]

10:58 PM on 12/25/2009

Spill, Baby, Spill?

[wdw505]

08:48 AM on 12/26/2009

it was not from drilling it was a tug...........and it was not oil it was diesel fuel........so your post was just plain stupid.............

[mados123]

11:13 AM on 12/26/2009

Uhh, did diesel fuel SPILL out of the tug after it was struck or did it walk out? I'm sorry if you were someone who was wearing one of those ingenious buttons.

[realitytrumpsbull]

10:19 PM on 12/25/2009

Pays to do maintenance on the sonar system, I guess. Breathalyzer results? If the reef is that shallow, why no marker buoys/channel markers etc?

[ElBorba]

04:13 AM on 12/26/2009

Breathalyzers and drug tests were negative

Bligh Reef is well charted and marked.

They were scouting for ice in advance of a tanker transiting Valdez Narrows and somehow got over where they shouldn't have been . .

I've run that boat . .

[Newthron]

09:24 PM on 12/25/2009

Let's hope, they will clean it, to the last drop.