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The spill occurred when Exxon Valdez, an oil supertanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company, bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound 's Bligh Reef, 6 mi (9.7 km) west of Tatitlek, Alaska at 12:04 a.m. The tanker spilled more than 10 million US gallons (240,000 bbl) (or 37,000 tonnes) [1] of crude oil over the next few days.
The Alaska SeaLife Center generates and shares scientific knowledge to promote understanding and stewardship of Alaska's marine ecosystems. The Alaska SeaLife Center project cost $55 million; Exxon Valdez oil spill settlement funds made up the $37.5 million portion of funds dedicated to research and rehabilitation. An additional $12 million was ...
Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound, spilling her cargo of crude oil into the sea. On 24 March 1989, while owned by the former Exxon Shipping Company, captained by Joseph Hazelwood and First Mate James Kunkel, [3] and bound for Long Beach, California, the vessel ran aground on the Bligh Reef, resulting in the second largest oil ...
Structural engineer. Edwards & Hjorth. Main contractor. George A. Fuller Co. References. [1] 1251 Avenue of the Americas(formerly known as the Exxon Building) is a skyscraperon Sixth Avenue(also known as Avenue of the Americas), between 49th and 50th Streets, in the Midtown Manhattanneighborhood of New York City. It is owned by Mitsui Fudosan.
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was the second largest in U.S. history, and in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez incident, the U.S. Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. An initial award of US$5 billion punitive was reduced to $507.5 million by the US Supreme Court in June 2008, [59] and distributions of this award commenced in 2008. [60]
The first was the crash of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. And the second was the 1992 kidnapping and killing of Sidney Reso, then-vice president of ...
The Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council is an independent non-profit organization based in Anchorage and Valdez, Alaska, whose mission is to promote the environmentally-safe operation of the Alyeska Pipeline 's Valdez Marine Terminal and associated oil tankers, and to inform the public of those activities.
Coordinates: 40°43′42″N 73°56′19″W. The Greenpoint oil spill is one of the largest oil spills ever recorded in the United States. Located around Newtown Creek in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, between 17 and 30 million US gallons (64,000 and 114,000 m 3) of oil and petroleum products have leaked into the soil ...