News blackout: Alaska pipeline 'catastrophe'

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Burst oil pipeline causes 'catastrophe' in Alaska

By Andrew Gumbel | 14 March 2006 | Independent UK

A burst pipeline in Alaska's North Slope has caused the Arctic region's worst oil spill, spreading more than 250,000 gallons of crude oil over an area used by caribou herds and prompting environmentalists again to question the Bush administration's drive for more oil exploration there.

... continued here - http://news.independent.co.uk/enviro...icle351121.ece

[zengrifter]

Published on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 by the Independent / UK

Oil Gushes into Arctic Ocean from BP Pipeline
by Leonard Doyle

Across the frozen North Slope of Alaska, the region's largest oil accident on record has been sending hundreds of thousands of litres of crude pouring into the Arctic Ocean during the past week after a badly corroded BPO pipeline ruptured.

The publicity caused by the leak in the the 30-year-old pipeline could seriously damage BP's image, which has been carefully crafted to show it as a company concerned about the environment. Unlike other major oil companies, BP boasts that it is fully signed up to the dangers of global warming and it makes a conspicuous effort to flaunt its green credentials, tackling local environmental problems and erecting wind turbines above its petrol stations.

...continued here - http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0321-06.htm

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Originally Posted by zengrifter

Burst oil pipeline causes 'catastrophe' in Alaska

By Andrew Gumbel | 14 March 2006 | Independent UK

A burst pipeline in Alaska's North Slope has caused the Arctic region's worst oil spill, spreading more than 250,000 gallons of crude oil over an area used by caribou herds and prompting environmentalists again to question the Bush administration's drive for more oil exploration there.

... continued here - http://news.independent.co.uk/enviro...icle351121.ece

I didn't know Bush was running BP now. Let me get this right, 2 acres of Alaska's 365,000,000 are covered in oil. I'm pretty sure the caribou herds will be safe.