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- NATION, Page 59American NotesALASKAThreatening A Shutdown
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- One ecodisaster in a lifetime is enough for Dennis Kelso,
- Alaska's commissioner of the department of environmental
- conservation. Unless tankers that use the 800-mile trans-Alaska
- pipeline submit individual spill contingency plans by Nov. 13,
- Kelso says he will deny them access to the port of Valdez,
- effectively shutting down the pipeline. George Bush has warned
- that a shutoff of oil would not be in the "national interest."
- This is not Alaska's first such threat. After the Exxon Valdez
- ran aground in March, Governor Steve Cowper told oil companies
- to increase safety measures or he would shut the pipeline. Now
- Cowper wants something in writing.
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