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Article: Oil Spilling From Alaska Pipeline
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- October 6, 2001
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MAUREEN CLARK, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
10-06-2001
Oil Spilling From Alaska Pipeline
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Crews were slowed by explosive vapors as they tried to plug a leak in the trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline that spewed nearly 300,000 gallons of oil into the wilderness.
In what the governor called ``a hare-brained act of violence,'' a man who had been drinking caused the leak when he shot the pipeline with a big-game rifle that has the power to kill animals like elk and bear.
Crews were trying to fix the hole, but the work was proceeding slowly because of flammable vapors that made the operation dangerous, said Brad Hahn of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.
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