Citizens' Council: In the News

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2009

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December

Pathfinder incident:
All ahead stop (Alaska Dispatch, 12.30.2009)
Tug’s accident raises questions (Homer Tribune)
Investigation into tugboat grounding on Bligh Reef begins (Anchorage Daily News, 12.29.2009)

Invasive Species:
Council wants to zap aquatic tanker stowaways (Anchorage Daily News, 12.26.2009)

November

RCAC Happy With Efforts to Keep Tugboats (KSRM Radio Kenai, 11.5.2009)

October

Preventing oil spills (Juneau Empire, 10.23.2009)
Necessary backup: Two tugs should be required for oil tankers leaving Valdez (Fairbanks Daily News Miner, 10.21.2009)
Two escorts for Alaskan tankers planned (Tanker Operator, 10.19.2009)

August

Support lawmakers for escort tug efforts (Anchorage Daily News, this also ran in the Cordova Times and Alaska Journal of Commerce)

July

Citizen input can help Arctic oil development (Dutch Harbor Fisherman)
Weather station installed at Cape St. Elias (Cordova Times)
Weather station helps mariners near Cordova (Alaska Journal of Commerce)
Weather station helps Gulf of Alaska mariners (Anchorage Daily News)

June

Our view: Arctic stewards (Anchorage Daily News)

May

Begich, Murkowski team up on tanker escort bill (KTUU, Anchorage)
Senators push escort bill for Valdez tankers (Juneau Empire)
Two-tug tanker escort could become federal law (Anchorage Daily News)
Network sets traps to find any green crabs in Alaska (SitNews, Ketchikan, Alaska)

March

Oil spill still fresh in the minds of Cordovans (APRN interview with then board president Patience Anderson Faulkner)
Oil Drilling Debate Rages on, 20 Years After the Valdez Spill (US News and World Report)
20 years since Exxon Valdez oil spill (The Australian)
Push for ANWR drilling continues as Exxon Valdez anniversary looms (Fairbanks News Miner)

 

2008

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August

Studies trace psychological aftermath of oil spill (The Cordova Times)

July

Exxon maintains it doesn't owe interest (Anchorage Daily News)

June

Exxon damages slashed (Seattle Post Intelligencer)

April

Coastal firefighters to receive free training for battling shipboard blazes (The Cordova Times)

March

House speaker warns tanker owners (Anchorage Daily News)

2007

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November

ConocoPhillips oil spill case will make the state's waters safer (Seattle PI)

Listen: Council staffer Lisa Ka'aihue weighs in on non-indigenous species in ballast water on Juneau's KTOO radio spot, "Invasion of the Atlantic Salmon."

June

U-turn by Gregoire on oil-spill panel (Seattle Post Intelligencer)

January

Spurred to action by the Exxon Valdez oil spill, this tour-boat captain made a commitment to protect Prince William Sound. (article about council president Stan Stephens and PWSRCAC in Coastal Living magazine)

 

2006

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December

Gregoire 'defangs' oil panel: Critics blast governor's plan to move watchdog council (Seattle Post Intelligencer)

November

Ad campaign stalled as producers agree to meet over Valdez emissions (Alaska Journal of Commerce)

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