Long-term monitoring in Prince William Sound shows lowest contamination levels in study’s history

Results from the Council’s efforts to monitor the long-term environmental impacts of the operation of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company’s Valdez Marine Terminal and associated tankers since the Exxon Valdez oil spill have shown oil contamination in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska has reached all-time low values. The Council has been conducting environmental monitoring since 1993. Alyeska and its owner companies have implemented…

Group plans update for oil spill educational curriculum

By LINDA ROBINSON Council Outreach Coordinator A group interested in creating new educational materials about oil spills met in the council’s Anchorage office this past March. Three of the organizations represented, the Prince William Sound Science Center, the Alaska SeaLife Center, and the council were already working on their own projects to create materials on oil spills. The science center’s plan was to compile a database of oil spill…

Guide for dealing with an oil spill

How do technological disasters affect communities? What can you do to help? “The fishing season of 1989 was projected to be the opportunity of a lifetime: big volume, big prices. Then the oil spill hit…no herring season, no fishing season. Everybody left to work the oil spill; your employees left to work the spill. Then the people who made big money working the spill left the following winter after the spill. So, businesses were all…

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The searchable document list below may load slowly. Thank you for your patience. Use the table below to search or filter documents on this site. See also: Board Meeting Archives Title/Additional Details Author Date Description View Document hf:doc_categories Regional Evaluation of Non-indigenous Marine Species in Prince William Sound Gregory M. Ruiz et al. September 24, 2024 The report describes a survey conducted in 2023, looking for…

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