Fuel tanker runs aground in Northwest Passage
Globe and Mail, Sep. 02, 2010
A fuel tanker loaded with 9 million litres of diesel fuel has run aground in the Northwest Passage, Canadian coast guard officials confirmed Thursday.
The Canadian-registered vessel, named 'Nanny,' hit a sandbar Wednesday in the area near Simpson Strait, Nunavut. It was carrying supplies to Northern communities.
Vessels' collision sparks massive oil spill
By PAIGE HEWITT and DANE SCHILLER, Houston Chronicle, Jan. 24, 2010
Cleanup in Port Arthur under way; evacuations lifted
Escort tugs rescue drifting tanker
By KYLE HOPKINS, Anchorage Daily News, January 17th, 2010
EXXON: Ship loses its power generators as it was departing sound.
An Exxon tanker carrying more than 25 million gallons of Alaska crude oil lost power early Sunday morning while leaving Prince William Sound and had to be towed to safety, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Pipelines, tankers a bad idea
Dave Shannon, Terrace Standard, December 30, 2009
Have you seen the TV documentary on the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill? Twenty years after the event, with entrained oil still affecting the waters, the fishing industry in Prince William Sound is still struggling to recover. The salmon are just beginning to come back.
