Exxon Valdez: Oil Meets Water | 1
American Scandal
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Oil Spills in Alaska
State approved 19 77 contingency plan, the c p, is codified in excruciating detail. It dictates that aliasca call in its crack emergency clean up crew. But when they show up at the barge that will take them to the valdes, it's empty. All their equipment is missing. Their skimmers are gone too. After a quick search, they find it all buried under seven feet of snow. And then everything needs to be loaded on to the barge by six a m. Only one of the 50 workers can operate the crane and take the equipment from the warehouse onto the barge. The other 50 have to dig out the equipment for two more days before being able to
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