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- From: Desiree_Bradley@mindlink.bc.ca (Desiree Bradley)
- Subject: Shetland Oil Spill
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:42:58 GMT
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- Has anybody heard how the cleanup and containment efforts are going?
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- The trouble with cleanup efforts is that, in the case of the Valdez oil
- spill, the cleanup did damage on its own. For instance, the spraying of hot
- water to wash oil off the stony beaches made the beaches look better.
- However, the spraying was hard on the invertebrates living between and under
- the stones. The Alaska storms were what did the most good in getting oil off
- the beaches and breaking down the slick.
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- As for where I think I remember this information about the Valdez spill, I am
- quite sure that the information was in some papers given at one of the
- American Petroleum Institute oil spill conferences. Those conferences come
- out every two years or so, and the titles vary a bit. I'd think it was the
- 1990 or 1991 conference (the one held after the Valdez oil spill).
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- But if, as I think, the storms will help disperse the oil and clean the
- beaches I feel that if the weather was calm the tanker would not have hit the
- rocks.
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- Desiree Bradley
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