Industry and council test spill response plans during drill
A fishing vessel pulls oil spill boom during a recent drill. On June 12 and 13, an oil spill drill conducted by the U.S. Coast Guard and hosted by Alyeska tested oil spill contingency plans for the Valdez Marine Terminal. During the drill, the council put aspects of its own internal spill readiness plan to the test. The fictional drill scenario involved a power outage at the Valdez Marine Terminal, a ruptured line leading to one of the loading…