NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/sci/environm/14402

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From: [e-mail] (Desiree Bradley)
Subject: Re: Oil Spills (Valdez); Shetland
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:27:02 GMT
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> Desiree Bradley writes:
>
> breaking up the Valdez spill and cleaning the beaches.  The use of hoses to
> spray hot water onto the rocky beaches was great asthetic effects but was
> hard on the invertebrates that were between or under the stones.
>


According to the Vancouver Sun, Thomas Suchanek of the University of
California talked of the results of efforts to clean up the Valdez spill.
Talking of the use of chemical dispersants and the high-pressure,
high-temperature water sprayed on the rocky shores in Alaska, he said "The
pressure drove the oil farther into the sediments and the high temperatures
killed everything they were trying to save." (He was at the conference of the
American Society of Zoologists in Vancouver)  Suchanek also is quoted in the
newspaper as saying "the cleanup treatments apparently had a greater
deleterious impact on shoreline communities than did oil alone."

SOURCE ----- VANCOUVER SUN (JANUARY 8, 1993)

If you want more details, perhaps you can ask Thomas Suchanek.  But I have
the impression that some findings are preliminary and that others are secret
because of Exxon publication restrictions.  (Suchanek had been hired by Exxon
to study impacts of spilled oil.)

Desiree Bradley