Nearly twenty years ago, in the Prince William Sound off the Alaskan coast, the Exxon Valdez super tanker struck a reef and disgorged eleven million US gallons of crude oil into the sea. Eleven million is the generally accepted figure; the Exxon Valdez was carrying 53 million gallons and some believe that far more was [...]
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