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- LETTERS, Page 10ALASKA, AMERICA'S LAST FRONTIER
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- If this nation is powerful enough to build a supertanker
- that can produce a 10 million-gal. oil spill (ENVIRONMENT, April
- 17), it is also capable of legislating changes that will prevent
- another Exxon Valdez catastrophe.
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- Linda Palmer Issaquah, Wash.
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- Exxon should be barred from Alaska . . . now and forever.
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- Jeanne Corbett Forest Lake, Minn.
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- It is easy to point the finger at Exxon, but there will
- always be episodes of incompetence in the world. I too am
- enraged by the company's handling of this mess. However, as long
- as there is a great demand for oil, there will be oil spills.
- One way to reduce the number of such accidents is to cut back
- on our consumption of oil and petroleum products. This means
- doing everything from using car pools to buying fewer plastics.
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- Claia Bryja Minneapolis
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- Alaskans are a hardy people. We will recover from this
- disaster, and so will the environment. It will take time. But
- something else was lost, and it cannot be replaced. The
- goodwill toward petroleum companies doing business in Alaska
- gushed out along with the oil from the hull of the Exxon Valdez,
- and is lying on the fouled shores of Prince William Sound with
- the dead animals.
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- Robert J. Lewis Anchorage
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- No oil company should be above the good of the earth. Exxon
- should be broken up and any proceeds given to the National
- Wildlife Federation.
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- Brian T. Reiter Marietta, Pa.
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