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Article: How crude can they get? Alaska still rolls over for big oil.
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- Earth Island Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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March 24 marked the passage of 15 years since the Exxon Valdez oil spill. I'll never forget walking the oiled beaches the week Exxon declared the Prince William Sound "clean." Some of the beaches looked spotless, but walking on them was surreal. It felt as if I were negotiating a bed of Jell-O; oil was lying just below the surface. To this day, oil haunts the ecosystem. It may for decades.
The state and federal administrations are pushing oil development and exploration in parts of Alaska that have historically been off-limits. Oil industry champion Frank Murkowski, a long-time senator, is now governor. With the support of the Bush administration, Alaska's ...
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