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| Date: | Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:55:41 -0700 |
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> 4TH MAJOR OIL SPILL FOULS ARCTIC TUNDRA: Alaska's
> 4th major spill
> this
> winter sent nearly 100,000 gallons of "salt water
> and crude oil" onto
> the North Slope tundra says the Anchorage Daily
> News
> 4/17. The oily
> mixture that escaped from a corroded pipeline was
> "at a temperature
> of
> more than 100 degrees," and quickly "saturated
> nearly an acre of
> tundra." The "accident timing," which "may be one
> of
> the largest
> spills
> ever on the North Slope" is "bad for Alaska's big
> oil companies" who
> want to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife
> Refuge
> just 90 miles to
> the east.
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>
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