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- <text id=89TT2851>
- <title>
- Oct. 30, 1989: American Notes:Alaska
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 30, 1989 San Francisco Earthquake
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 59
- American Notes
- ALASKA
- Threatening A Shutdown
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- <p> 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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- </body></article>
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