KODIAK, Alaska – Coast Guard and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation have established a Unified Command in response to an oil spill 49 miles north of Kodiak in Shuyak Strait, Tuesday. The spill reportedly occurred Monday morning after an abandoned building collapsed during extreme weather conditions. An oil fuel bladder located inside the building fell […]
The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six-year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S. history. This is the first comprehensive appraisal of the financial value of the […]
In a new study, they also detailed how remnants of the oil, black carbon from burning oil slicks and contaminants from drilling mud combined with microscopic algae and other marine debris to descend in a “dirty blizzard” to the seafloor. The work, published May 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, confirms […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard, a co-chair of the Alaska Regional Response Team (ARRT), in coordination with four other signatory agencies announced the new policy for the Dispersant Use Plan For Alaska, Wednesday in Anchorage. The new policy is more inclusive, comprehensive, and conservative and includes a preauthorization area with a more protective protocol for […]
With a Hail Mary motion filed in US District Court in Anchorage, a marine conservation professor who has followed the Exxon Valdez oil spill litigation is asking that public comment be ordered on the potential reopener claim. The amicus curiae motion filed on Nov. 3 by Rick Steiner, a retired University of Alaska Fairbanks professor, […]
Hazmat-suited workers continue to clean up the oil-laden beaches at Santa Barbara’s Refugio State Beach on Friday and have been working around the clock after Tuesday’s rupture of an oil pipeline, owned by Plains All American Pipeline, sent thousands of gallons of crude flowing into the ocean and leaving an unsightly layer of black tarry […]
As part of an unusual mortality event investigation, a team of scientists has discovered that dead bottlenose dolphins stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico since the start of the Deepwater Horizonoil spill have lung and adrenal lesions consistent with petroleum product exposure according to a paper published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed online journal PLOS […]
Oil spill amounts in the Santa Barbara oil spill that occurred on Tuesday have been revised upward from the original 21,000 gallons that Plains All American Pipeline Company stated and the U.S. Coast Guard repeated. The pipeline company says that as much as 105,000 gallons may have escaped from the burst pipeline. It is unclear […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – Coast Guard Sector Juneau and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation personnel are investigating the spill of approximately of 50-100 gallons of petroleum products at the Auke Bay Harbor, Monday. Southeast Alaska Lighterage has been contracted to contain and mitigate the spill and they have deployed more than 1000-feet of boom and […]