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Eighteen Years Ago…

0 Comments Published by Steve Kretzmann March 24th, 2007 in Oil, Pollution, oil tankers

On March 24, 1989 eleven million gallons of North Slope crude oil began pouring out of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker into the pristine waters of Alaska’s Prince William Sound. Hundreds of thousands of fish, seabirds, bald eagles, otters, seals and whales were maimed and killed. The native communities whose lives depended on those waters […]

Plans to Beat Oil Bottleneck

0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell March 21st, 2007 in Iran, Oil Price, oil tankers

Gulf governments are planning to build oil pipelines that will bypass the world’s most vulnerable energy choke point, the Strait of Hormuz, aiming to avoid possible Iranian threats to global oil shipments.
Around two-fifths of the world’s traded oil is shipped by tanker through the Hormuz Strait. But the 54km wide passage is highly vulnerable […]

Oil Giant “Knew Tanker Was a Risk”

0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell February 13th, 2007 in Pollution, oil tankers

The French oil company Total and 14 other defendants were accused yesterday of criminal responsibility for one of Europe’s most calamitous oil spills, the wreck of the Erika. Total is accused of agreeing to use the ship even though it failed to satisfy its own safety rules.
The four-month trial - the most complex of its […]