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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill a Cautionary Tale for Arctic Ocean Drilling

Richard Steiner | Posted 05.24.2012

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Richard Steiner

The Exxon Valdez disaster remains a tragic lesson in what can be lost with a few bad policy decisions and a few broken promises. The spill became an enduring symbol of recklessness, hubris, arrogance, complacency and outright dishonesty.

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Is Obama Dismantling the Trans-Alaska Pipeline?

AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 10.30.2011

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Needless to say, President Obama does not have the power -- neither legally nor politically -- to dismantle much at all these days, to say nothing of an 800-mile tube of steel running through some of Alaska's most inhospitable lands.

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BP Has a Long History of Problems at Alaska's Prudhoe Bay

AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 07.04.2011

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On Tuesday, it was announced that BP would pay $25 million and spend another $60 million implementing a state-of-the-art monitoring system to guard ag...

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Alaska Oil Pipeline To Shut Down Again

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Operators of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline say they're planning to shut down the pipeline again Friday night to install a 15...

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Alaska Oil Pipeline Restarted After Leak

AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Oil resumed flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline Wednesday, but at only two-thirds the rate before a 3 1/2-day shutdown...

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Alaska Oil Spill: Trans-Alaska Pipeline Shuts Down 800 Mile Area In North Slope

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Up to several thousand barrels of crude oil from the trans-Alaska pipeline spilled Tuesday into a massive tank and overflow...

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