Exxon Oil Spill

At them 140 lawsuits piled up in Anchorage Superior Court over the oil spill Exxon waited for the state to weigh in with its own major claim. Tuesday morning the attorney general did just that naming Exxon Alyeska pipeline and all seven owners of the consortium in a suit that officials say could reach into the billions of dollars. But next not an Alyeska. That means the pipeline companies of ARCO BP Amerada Hess Mobil Phillips and Unocal are defendants in this case. At a news conference Tuesday morning state oil spill coordinator Robert the Resch said the liability extends to all the major owners of the pipeline because they made the decision to cut back on the manpower training and equipment at Alyeska marine terminal that the state says led directly to the failure to contain the spill. The rest called Alyeska a sham and a corporate shell that the owner companies had been hiding behind. These people are these these companies. The complaint maintains had such control over Alyeska operations day to day operations budgets and performance that they Arco BP. Philips and all the

others were responsible for Alyeska failure to respond properly to the spill. Exxon attorney Richard Clinton says he's not surprised by the suit although Exxon wasn't aware the state plan to file it this week then says he was a little surprised to see all the individual pipeline owners named as defendants. Well I got the honor to have done that. I was somewhat surprised but it was a complete surprise. The lawsuit seeks common law remedies and punitive damages as well as relief based on a host of state statutes including negligence and spilling oil. Negligence or not cleaning it up properly. Lying about the industry's ability to deal with a big spill employing an unsaved vessel that is tankers with only single hulls in an inherently dangerous trade breech of the pipeline right of way the least public nuisance private nuisance and trespass. Among other things the state charges that Exxon systematically reduced the crew size of tankers in the value trade for the purpose of saving money leaving a crew on the Exxon Valdez that the state

says was overworked fatigued and not alert. On the evening of March 23rd. The complaint says for a variety of reasons the defendants either intentionally or negligently permitted Captain Hazelwood and the crew of the Exxon Valdez to frequently and systematically violate Coast Guard regulations and Exxon policies concerning the Manning and operation of the tanker. They claimed two incidents caused the spill the grounding on the reef and later attempts to dislodge the vessel. Then according to the complaint Alyeska failed to respond to the spill immediately and then handed over control of the response to Exxon causing quote delay confusion and ineffective use of equipment and manpower. As a result the state has more than a thousand square miles of Alaska land and waters suffered severe environmental damage. Their damages include loss Fish and Wildlife loss of business associated with those resources. Cost to the state and loss of oil revenue and quote the infliction of emotional distress on Alaskans. All these damages are unspecified for now to be proven at trial. The rest as the total will likely reach into the multiple billions of dollars. Attorney General

Bailey doesn't want to attach any figures to the suit at this point. And as for how long all this is going to take Bailey isn't expecting a trial date anytime soon. I would expect a minimum of five six years and he guesses on how long it would take to end the drought. They speculate. Oh are there any general Douglas Bailey rapier in and you know Peter Kenyon. It's rare for Midget Garber to receive visitors but there's been a lot more drop in traffic lately. This time the chopper brings the DC shoreline survey crew. Every day you have an Arab family day every day. However since she and her husband chose to live on to get it because they were tired of seeing man's inhumanity to man this summer they had to see man's inhumanity to the environment and for marriage.

It's been heartbreaking you know it's just to say you just have to take those little oil surges because we're animal lovers or nature lovers who miss why we're out here you know to get out here. It said We love it and I feel because it is so and I don't you know there's no trees or anything in the eco balance out here is extremely delicate Piggy because where nine grey whales washed up in recent months. Garber has seen the carcasses firsthand and she suspects oil caused at least some of the deaths. And inside of the Bailey just a black you know when you see the animals all the time you know what kills them. You know I'm not a marine biologist but I know my own animals very well. They Garber have been working 18 to 20 hour days picking up bird carcasses and well most of the beach they've been asking authorities to send a cleanup crew to get

it since the oil first hit in May and he wants to out clean up one and they think all these observation teams are too in the area right now. All they do is have a ride around and look. And not one person except my husband and I. I have cleaned up one thing Garber admits working to be time to get it could be hazardous. There are patches of quicksand and one could easily get trapped between an incoming tide and a perpendicular cliff but John Garber her husband operate to guide any crew assigned and Major offered to put the workers up and cook for them. But throughout the summer officials rated Tiggy take as having only a light impact. It was considered a low priority. If they feel if you know just sourdoughs out fair and just so you know one small little island so it's only fairly Once you know it's very important I think it was the fact

that it's a bird Haven you know. There are so many endangered species of animals and birds out here most important to me for a while to fish and game vessels were assigned to the area but they were forbidden to pick up oil. They were just supposed to bag birds. Later when the vessels were reassigned the gardeners could get no one to pick up the waste that was piling up rice in bags and loose and finally it is either dormant or have all the rest of what's remaining of our birds that they carry in and they get sick and die. But now it looks like the bags of carcasses will be picked up and the garbage will get some help on the beach cleaning. Exxon Representative John TV announced a six person crew would be sent to the island immediately. The crew will only be stationed there for a few days. Meanwhile Exxon plans to meet with U.S. and fish and wildlife representatives to

discuss whether further action is necessary in Kodiak. I'm Charlene parent. Exxon was told that wide scale use of correct at 95 80 was not approved and that all use of the chemical cleaner must stop at once. Despite Exxon protest not only is XM very disappointed with that decision we very strongly disagree with the suit. Exxon's Bill Raney argued that last night's operations briefing for another review of the data but was turned down that role on scene coordinator Coast Guard Rear Admiral David Chang Illini says a proposal for a very small scale test would be considered. But it's up to Exxon to decide whether it wants to pursue more testing until data is made available. That clarifies at least the problems that the committee and I have concerning the use of correct. I feel that we cannot use it any further. Reporting from Daddy's I'm Sue Rapley. Oh yeah Guyland is directly downstream from the barons and residents are worried

about effects of bio remediation on their waters. DC Arnie Shryock says bio remediation has a number of good points but it has some drawbacks. It can't be used anywhere there is pooled oil and it doesn't work on moves. It works best on lightly to moderately oiled sediment Shryock says bio remediation elements are also toxic if they come in contact with workers skin. However the dilution factor in the ocean is such that it will have no practical effect. The system Shryock said bio remediation treatments have been approved conceptually for many locations reporting from Kodiak. I'm Lainey Welch the sequel was a 67 foot steel hauled Bay shrimper serving as a fish tender for North Pacific processors of Cordova. The sequel capsized and sank Tuesday morning about four miles northwest of naked island according to Coast Guard Chief Ed Morat vessel discovery.

Have one read to this thing think of one survivor who was in the life of Morrison's Coast Guard helicopters and vessel searched the area for the three missing people. But the search had been called off for the day by dark with no success. No names have been released. Information from the Coast Guard is not available yet as to whether the sequel was loaded with fish or not when it sank. But there had been a 12 hour opening the day before in areas not too far away. One unofficial source says there were 100000 pounds of fish aboard when the sequel went down. Reporting from bounties I'm so rapidly. That I could have a site was chosen because it's close to oil clean up areas. It doesn't conflict with an existing fishery and it's far away from people. But residents of Port Lyons feel the barge is too close for comfort. Michael today is about eight miles away from their village. They're concerned about the effect emissions might have on health and they're angered that people from

Port Lyons had no input about the barges location. Exxon has promised to hear their concerns before burning but time is running out. Exxon says there are no plans to continue burning after September 15th. And since Exxon fielded by code of a is a suitable place to burn oily waste it should be. And any day. Exxon pushed for wide scale use of its chemical cleaner to test operational procedures the state approved of the proposal and scrambled to arrange a test that would measure effectiveness. The end result was that agencies involved decided Exxon had not proved it correct that 95 80 was any more effective than any other treatment now in use at Tuesday night's operations briefing Exxon's Bill Rainey said not only was Exxon disappointed with the decision Exxon disagreed with it and Rainey proceeded to argue for further review of the data.

We strongly disagree with the statements that have been made on the efficiency of I understand the basis for the statements and the basis of the statements on efficiency or gallons or recovered and gallons of oil recovered over a period of time. Four of the Corexit sites versus the hot water cleaned side. However there was no measurement of the amount of oil that was perceived to be on each of the sites in the first boy Rainey said it was significant that corrects it cleaned twice as many square feet per hour as hot water washing and that should be used as a strong measure of effectiveness but known as Sharon Christofferson who chairs the research and development committee explained that the recommendation against Carex it was based on not being able to document an increase in efficiency of removing the oil from the environment rather than the efficiency of removing the oil from the beach. Most of assessing a serious posi stand tests and also be on the field as most of you reading

the correction and also a few minutes before this. Did a female officer. But off the rocks was not enough. The committee is data based on three different comparisons of oil recovered and found that there was no significant difference in the amount recovered would correct that compared to the amount recovered from the reference beach. There will continue to be discussions of correct that but use of the chemical has been halted according to the federal on scene coordinator Rear Admiral David Chang Illini. If Exxon wishes to continue testing on a small scale that will be considered otherwise it cannot be used any longer. Well so many questions still remain effective as operational efficiency Oh there was questions concerning the plume there was questions concerning the sediment. There was questions concerning to some degree but this was not a showstopping thing to toxicity. It was not a showstopper on this one. The concern about that of deploying the time required to deploy and the brooms and equipment and then to retrieve them.

The amount of correction that was still in the order of concern about the inconsistent some of the data that didn't seem to be consistent and this just isn't there. I hate to use this phrase but the water is still money on it and so we need to have it clarified for it to proceed further. We want to we have. We really are we really I think all of us I can't speak for the rest of the people but we really had hoped that this would work but we just can't go on with the data that we have right now. Reporting from Downey's I'm Sue Rapley. When Portland residents found out the incinerator was going to operate by Kota Bay they were angry first because they had no opportunity to comment on the issue at a public hearing held weeks ago. The only side under discussion with kook at bay on the Alaska Peninsula public opposition forced Exxon to come up with an alternative to kook act. But port Lyons residents say by court today is a poor alternative. It's only three miles

from the villages watershed and the prevailing wind in late summer and early fall blow from VI quota toward Port Lyon residents are worried about toxic fallout from the incinerator smoke. Tuesday night Exxon official attended a public meeting in port Lyon to discuss the issue. But according to city council member Timothy Ward residents got angry when it appeared Exxon was not willing to discuss an alternative site. They brought experts and they brought a woman from Colorado who was supposedly an environmental health expert bits of engineer from Exxon to intro worked it was not it was not an effort at all to to accommodate us. It was just telling us they were going to go ahead and burn through the still photo or decided to pull out all the stops to do it to the Portland City Council is holding a special meeting tonight to pass a resolution against the incinerator being placed in by Kota. They recommend it be placed fog Necker Island in Marina Bay. The council hopes its action will convince DC to revoke bond permits but Exxon has

a permit but they don't have to actually use it. It's like a permit to drive a car you don't have to go drive a car in D.C. can focus permit they should. We just are our positions we just cannot have this in or in the city here there are a number of mothers here in town that are very gravely concerned about their children and effects of this destructive Polak indoor watershed in the surrounding area here that we just can't there's not a compromising position for so the church the they're trying to do to move the operation to really debate you know knowing a bay is far enough away from both Portland and you think for residents to feel comfortable or that ward in the incinerator is so safe why not put it to the city of Kodiak Exxon plans to go ahead and start burning in four days. Peace Corps thought acting mayor of Port Lyons says if that happens residents have informed Exxon they plan to set up a blockade in the bay. I told pvt Allison organize a bunch of boats and skiffs and go in there and surround that thing or

something and he said go ahead. The acting mayor of Port Lyons Pete or thumb in Kodiak. I'm Charlene parent. Exxon still declines to comment on its winter plan. Spokesman Bill Wright. Cheney said Exxon isn't ready yet. What we're trying to review in very sane and what we plan to do during the war but we suggest that Exxon's role should be during the winter and how we transition from where we are right now and to that one a problem not quite rigid or that should be ready verso one clue of how soon is the Exxon is canceling its tours of beach cleaning efforts on August 30 first according to Exxon spokesman John Nichols. Yet at the end of August we should be getting ready to go to our operations. We need all of the available helicopters in order to implement reporting from daddy.

I'm soo raptly. Our position is we just cannot have this or the city here there are a number of mothers here in town that are very gravely concerned about their children effects of this to start to pull it into a watershed in the surrounding area that we just can't there's not a compromising position for so the church the church I told you to move the operation optimally to the you know I thought pvt OWS can organize a bunch of boats and skiffs and blow there and for all that they are Celtic and he said go ahead. Exxon has a team of archaeologists identified in trying to protect historic cultural sites and objects impacted by the oil spill. Many historic and prehistoric sites have been found. Most of the artifacts are still in place but a few have been collected. Exxon has worked with native groups to assure confidentiality of locations. But a recent Exxon decision to provide a public presentation of how things are protected in the field

coupled with the showing of some of the artifacts collected met with firm objection from the Cordova village corporation yack Steve RENNEBERG CEO of the corporation is alerting the public that artifacts exist will encourage looting you're going to have your amateur archaeologists is going to destroy more things and they're going to go. You know they're going to collect and the possibility of grave robbery going on. Yeah corporations as shareholders working on the clean up effort have already reported seen artifacts in the possession of other oil spill workers. If you're taking from native lands it's wrong to take you from state land was against the law. Exxon says it follows up on every report received by boarding vessels and staking out areas at night. And now Exxon is trying to obtain remote surveillance cameras. But even though there's proof of site disturbance there's only one instance where we move all of artifacts was proven. Reporting from Valdez Alaska I'm Sue raptly. Basically what we are here for is to give a tongue

to those who cannot speak to the sea otter who have been choked and frozen to death to the bald eagles the hundreds of bald eagles and bald eagle eggs that have been killed by the oil to the water fowl and to the sea birds that have been soaked with oil and choked to death. Are frozen to death to the SEALs and the whales and the other magnificent parts of the environment that have been destroyed or injured by the spill. But we are here today to announce is a major Wasser. But what we are here today to achieve is to try to bring the environment back to where it was before the Exxon Valdez spill. Our intent is that these resources be put into the public trust whatever additional resources would be acquired as a result of

this. Our intention would be that those be set aside for future generations of Americans and of Alaskans. We have decided that we should be a part of that lawsuit because we are our last names. It is the wildlife and right or the Wildlife Federation of Alaska its members enjoy Prince William Sound on a daily basis they know Prince William Sound and they know firsthand the damages which occur. The types of damages which have occurred and have very good ideas and knowledge about what needs to be done to redress that damage. Attorney General Douglas Bailey has said he's not satisfied with Exxon's explanation for the destruction of hundreds of documents some relating to the Exxon Valdez spill at Exxon Houston headquarters. But your branch your town has refused to order a court hearing and the state is ready to let the matter drop at least for now. Former Exxon employee Kenneth Davis is charged in court documents that he was made the scapegoat for Exxon's negligence in allowing

backup computer tapes that included oil spill documents to be erased. Davis sued Exxon for wrongful termination after he was fired one day after the eraser was discovered its complaint states that there were at least three separate paper racing incidents that destroyed documents from March 24th the day of the spill through sometime in April and other information was destroyed in May claims. Davis charged that the only complete record of oil spill information had been destroyed. Exxon has maintained that the tapes were backups and that no primary documents have been lost. Davis's attorney David Berg refused to allow the state to take Davis's statement except in a court hearing. A hearing had been scheduled last month but ShoreTel cancelled that one and has now refused to order another one. Assistant Attorney General Barbara Herman says the state can raise this issue again later. Meanwhile Berg says Kenneth Davis is pursuing his wrongful termination case against Exxon rapier and in Juneau. Peter Kenyon. In the case of the state of Alaska as Captain Joe Hazelwood defense attorneys have filed a motion

to prohibit the introduction of all blood alcohol test results. The memorandum attached says that Hazelwood was not arrested at the time or given the opportunity to refuse the task. Further the defense claims that the blood samples were not refrigerated for two days and no preservatives were used. All items which are contrary to Alaska statute in summary the memorandum says the defense believes this issue merely a red herring upon which the state is attempting to elicit an emotional appeal and insight the jury's passion and prejudice against the defendant. It goes on to say pretrial publicity along with this highly questionable task would clearly be sufficient to prejudice a jury and lead them to erroneous Lee believe that alcohol was the cause of the greatest oil spill in American history. The facts however the defense concludes clearly show that this was not the case and that alcohol use played absolutely no part in the accident. The papers filed in down the Superior Court include motions to dismiss the indictment Plus the counts of reckless endangerment and negligent discharge of oil. There's a motion to consolidate all charges and there is also a motion for a change of venue in the case of the state of

Alaska versus Captain Joe Hazelwood because the defense says it will be impossible to find an impartial and indifferent jury in valley. No other side is offered as an alternative. And the memorandum says only that the court should be free to decide or argue over the location later. Reporting from down days I'm Sue raptly. The National Wildlife Federation Alaska Wildlife Federation Natural Resources Defense Council and trial lawyers for Public Justice say all the other hundred and forty suits represent multiple interests so are Bryant of the trial lawyer says theirs is needed. We are Johnny One-Note on the environment. We are going to be there from the beginning to the end essentially harping on one issue and one issue alone restore the environment The suit seeks court and for some of the spill cleanup in the purchase of land to compensate for lost values. The order might for instance require preserving old growth forests to help the spill impacted marbled Merlot survive. Eric Olson of the Federation says they want to give a voice to those who can speak for themselves.

For NPR in I'm Steve Hyman. A landmark Supreme Court ruling years ago said Trees don't have standing to use the legal system to protect themselves but our brand of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice says that doesn't mean people can't. So on behalf of the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council the group has added another court action against Exxon to one hundred forty or so already filed. If we were to file this lawsuit on behalf of 800000 fish in Prince William Sound they would throw it out. The call has hailed that environmental groups and the members of environmental groups can sue to protect their interests which include the appreciation of the wildlife. The suit calls for setting up a panel of trustees to decide when the spill is cleaned up and what plans Exxon should buy to replace those irreparably harmed. For NPR and I'm Steve Hyman. The Admiral had said proposals for small scale testing would be considered. But what Exxon proposes is not small at all and it's not called a test. Although Exxon does say that

agencies may monitor as they feel appropriate without interrupting normal operations. Exxon wants interim approval for correct that use on all segments of the four islands involved in the recent large scale test halted Monday. In addition Exxon wants approval for more segments that were proposed last week to the shoreline committee and Exxon wants the right to propose more areas for its use in the future research and development committee members are conferring with their agencies about the newest correct proposal and are due to answer Exxon later today. Reporting from Daddy I'm Sue raptly. Charlene you are right now in the mayor's office. Port Lyon. Yeah we just arrived by skip most of the boat left town early this morning at about 7:30. They left to go to by Kota and to the boat I was empty right now. At this point it's hard to say what's going to be happening the boats are already out there or on their way.

What is the attitude of people. Who are clients are they willing to go into kind of high seas violence just to stop this incinerator from burning oily waste. No they're not willing to to have any violent action. It is. It's a stand. It's a protest and it's not and if you don't want to escalate into violence. But they feel pushed up against the wall right now. And this is the only alternative they can think of to cause attention to their love to bring attention to their cause. And it appears to be having some effect on the admiral in Dol days. Is has contacted Washington they are trying to negotiate right now. So it already seems to be having some effect but they don't want any violence. What will the Coast Guard do if people persist in a blockade. I imagine the Coast Guard will physically remove try to remove the bullets or rather have them arrested. For lying and people don't really know. They say they're willing to do what they have to

do to keep this from burning and they're willing to take the consequences. There is a certain amount of irony that these people are concerned about the pasta. Toxic fumes from the burning oil. And yet here they are literally out there right next to the incinerator. That's interesting that you bring that up. A woman this morning said she works for Vico for sometime this summer and that they had received safety training and they were assured that not to worry about the toxic effects of the oil. She said They told us not to worry about touching it and now they want to feed it to us. Meaning Of course that the toxic fallout would go into their watershed and affect their. Water supply. So they don't I don't think they consider it ironic at all. People took risks they had to take to get the oil cleaned up but they're not they're not willing to take any more risks unnecessary risk.

Like I say the Portland people are determined to go ahead with the action. The Coast Guard. German to stop it. And Exxon seems determined to burn. Right now we can't tell how it will end up. In Corey's site visits and urine tests are being conducted in an effort to find out exactly what made the beach cleanup workers sick cruise into Gach Bay came to work one day earlier this week and discovered the beach is littered with small green pellets. Gary Hanson of eco Foreman says the pellets were all over the place on the ground and on the driftwood they were cutting up for a week we picked up a look at it kind of rolled her over and saw it when it went and it was very good at that ribbon and stuff and pretty much everybody stood away from it you know. But it was all over the world that we had been cut up and had to carry a little guard and there was no way to stay away from it. Hansen says that by later that afternoon the complaints began to roll in one of the guys came up to me and show me some posters.

But as for that he did. Later on that night at dinner another guy you were talking about the other guy from Iraq or they were sought out the country or ultra throw the people out heretics and occurred of other people at the trial. Last night a team of investigators went to sell to conduct urine tests on the exposed workers. The testing was done to determine if the workers had been exposed to in a pump a liquid chemical fertilizer that is sprayed on the beaches. Only eight workers were available to be tested out of those eight only one tested positive. The biggest safety personnel say the results are inconclusive since a positive reaction can indicate problems other than in a Pollock's cocksure such as an ear or kidney infection because safety personnel also say that the crews were not given instructions for working around the chemical fertilisers because they weren't supposed to be working on treated beach is currently under investigation is the apparent communication gap between those applying the fertilizers and those scheduling the beach cleanup crews.

Also investigating the matter is an ocean industrial hygenic Mac Davis. Davis is trying to determine exactly what type of fertilizer the workers were exposed to. He says although he is still working on getting all the facts he has enough information to attribute the sickness to exposure to the chemical fertilisers Electroboy. It was some exposure whether we just had a great new litter or both. Hard to say it is so much truth going to be a long term health problems for it. So sure we disagree and you whooshed office skimmers cossie that it just take care about washing your hair for Unocal exposure if it had been empty would have resulted in the headache goes away in a day. There's no long term health effects associated with this bill. Level we're looking at and are also up in arms over the fact that the entire crew of 21 workers was laid off when they returned. Although Vico management says

that there was no connection between the illnesses and the layoffs there are some people who are not quite convinced that that's true. Reporting from Homer I'm Nora Wilkie. Exxon's general manager of O Harrison says it continues to be Exxon's objective to leave all the shorelines in Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska environmentally sound so that no threat remains to wildlife fish or person subsisting from the resources he has and says Exxon will keep a work force in Alaska over the winter. Headquartered in Anchorage. It will conduct aerial surveillance and mapping will continue scientific studies and consolidation of data and will provide community lies and personnel and will continue periodic meetings with state and federal authorities. Because of safety concerns on the water Exxon plans to start demobilisation soon but still plans to complete all treatment of the remaining eight hundred twelve miles of beach by September 15th if there's no bad weather and if allowed to use its chemical cleaner Carex it

acts on a contingency plan in case of an emergency is to stash containers with their boom absorbent materials and protective clothing in strategic locations around the sound to locate adequate boom nearby for hatchery protection to provide for emergency housing and Geneva and to identify local personnel they can be called out for an anticipated cleanup. Response to Exxon will make its proposal for spring in the second half of March and expect approval by April. The federal on scene coordinator Coast Guard Vice Admiral Clyde Robins had asked for a plan with the ability to respond to an emergency if such a threat occurred the current FOMC Coast Guard Rear Admiral David Gyngell Eeny is studying Exxon's proposed winter plan and will comment in a few days. Reporting from bounties I'm soo Rapley. The emergency response capability. Rugged ridge that's recommended that we're going through and the rest of the two that would be located in bury the rest of them about I mean of course that the law

is from Sam so we need to make sure that the capacity to respond in case of emergency is rare and it's present at batteries and not somewhere else. If the research and development. That that was actually planned or are so readily hippie grew up hard it was already through the roof and is committed to the rule when it went with just the right last Monday the federal on scene coordinator told Exxon to stop using its chemical cleaner corrects it 95 80 M2 Tuesday Exxon argued for a review of the data and was turned down by Thursday Exxon had another proposal for wide scale use of correction. On Saturday the admiral said no again concerns remain about the ability to consistently contain and recover oil removed from the shoreline would correct it. A memo to the admiral from the research and development committee says data does not substantiate Exxon's

position that corrects it is needed to meet the September 15th target for finishing shoreline treatment based on toxicity information provided so far. The memo says the committee would recommend the use of Corexit under proper guidelines if removal of the oil from the environment could be demonstrated. Reporting from Downey's I'm through raptly. I wish I could help. We disagree and you wish for a car that is taken care of by washing your hair. Her paw exposure if it had been any one of its own and the headache goes away in a day and no long term health effects associated with it will level or looking better done David. The girl service area 10 incinerators previously burned a small amount of weight from the 1987 glacier base bill and gargling then after the Prince William Sound. Billy Eckstein inquired to take the truck its ways up the hall road for

incineration at the probate facility. The girl agreed and Davis said it already had to be the permit so no additional permits were needed. Davis said the nature of the waste material can hire incineration temperatures minimize any environmental problems there are no orders. You lose something that are a loss a lot of the material is just barely. While physical got all he wanted he says the girl makes about six thousand dollars per day incinerating away for Exxon and that the extra material help run the facility closer to capacity in barrel. I really think we are. One of the guys came up to me toomy simpliciter. But as for that it got later on that it or another guy we were talking about That Other Guy from Iraq or that we found out that AOL transferred out. The people had headaches it occurred to other people at the truth also.

A spokesman with the Department of Environmental Conservation the province says Exxon has fulfilled all the requirements of the test a burn permit and a contractor hired by the company you cleared to begin burning. At 5:30 this evening. The residents of Port Lyons some eight miles away are concerned about potential toxic fallout from the burn. They've filed a request with the state for a hearing about the incinerator permit the E.C. is still trying to find an alternate location for the barge. At Thursday's Baro Assembly meeting acting mayor Linda Fried said there are several sites under consideration to alternative sites that are being well get now or danger of A in every day in the army. As I said even those sites because of the nature of the printing process might take several days just to get the permits but do meet the requirements of a waiting period for public comment both on

either state or federal level. As you're aware the waters around Assad neck are part of the US Maritime National Wildlife Refuge and it would require especially a summit on the subtle Fish Wildlife Service. They are willing to consider trying to do look at an exodus from it as they believe they have my gal. And that will require them to do some significant review DCs. Steve who is the on scene coordinator for the agency unveiled He says he's sending a letter to Exxon telling them the state does not feel there would be any environmental harm from the operation. Prov. says D.C. hopes Exxon doesn't burn from by color but it's not going to stop the company from firing up the incinerator. Meanwhile port Lyons residents say they'll establish a bulk blockade if Exxon starts burning in by Kota. But the Coast Guard says it will take whatever precautions are necessary to enforce safe navigating again.

Acting Mayor Linda Fried I guess for your information you should know the wisest as they will run a blockade as it is. The Coast Guard has indicated they will do what they do who uphold the law and. Could cause a conflict that we all might not want. Reporting from Kodiak I'm Lainey with. The Department of Environmental Conservation believes there is no help or environmental reason to revoke the incinerator permit. So port Lyons residents appealed to the congressional delegation but according to Portland City Council member Timothy Ward the congressional delegation was unsympathetic. Ward quotes Representative Don Young as saying let it burn. On Friday protesters hoped to threaten both blockade would put the pressure on Exxon to move the incinerator government and Coast Guard

authorities were worried about the potential confrontation but said there was nothing they could do to stop the burning. Friday afternoon the oil spill's federal on scene coordinator Admiral Ching the Leni called Portland the acting mayor Pete skorts up and asked them to call off the demonstration but refused and headed out to vie Kota Bay but the showdown never materialized. The incinerator barge stood alone in the day with no local boats inside and learned the test burn scheduled for Friday was postponed. Saturday about eight local books did circle the incinerator but Exxon's contractor continued preparations to burn the incinerator was heated up Sunday. It was set to go today. Mayor Ford was on the barge as operators were getting ready to push the start up but he says it was just at that time an Exxon engineer found a malfunction before he could start to even start to get on the barge. Pretty soon it was a stop to that. No I am not going to start it. There is. A chaotic goal. There in the rotary kill.

Boy any side of the wall and you know I said thank you you just made my day. The breakdown could cause a significant delay in operations. Skorts says the delay by protesters much needed time port lions in Kodiak Island Borough attorneys are investigating legal ways to permanently halt the burning. We got people working on it we're not going to stop reporting from Kodiak. I'm Charlene parent. The waste material from Exxon oil spill consists of that Dorgan who along with seaweed and driftwood it is trucked up the Dalton Highway in sealed containers and then mixed with other good combustibles and incinerated in the world service area tends to fill it. John Davis the girl's manager approved a operation. Environmental impacts are minimized because much of the material is only lightly oiled and all this burns very hot under our eyes.

This day we have been a proud fifteen hundred degree to make sure that our Try our garden our orange every day people from eighteen hundred and eighty five thousand three hundred which has had excellent job and they told us there are no they are still needed and today are indeed getting stale or they pay a higher price if the tests are all you are asking of a Hemi are burning from from Exxon and all the while where all the mold there are levels there is about 6000 hours per day with all the other ways and I turned out to be a good deal for the facility you know doesn't it and I don't actually feel the rally that we were expecting that here and now they are already there a natural burn because I'll actually cry. He was pretty good. We had just finished a build over

incinerator and we finished up the military. We were shut down for old buildings that were working in a girl fishbowl expect the incineration of a material to continue at least until mid September in barrel. I'm think we're in late June a burial site was discovered during beach cleaning operations on night island and human remains were found. The site was described as being an excellent example of that you get a needed burial site. But the state troopers who investigated didn't agree and believing the material to be from a recent death removed it for forensic testing. But the final report from the crime lab confirms the remains of prehistoric remains were returned to the CI Gadgil Lask a corporation in RI buried in a quiet ceremony that was private but Edward Blatchford chairman of the board for the regional Native corporation says the native people feel the remains should never have been removed in the first place. What upsets that you get people was that we did not know all botted

until well over a week after it had been trespassed upon. And you know the remains had been removed to Anchorage and that upset or remove all of those remains. Let's read says before the spill sites of historical importance to the to get people were protected simply by their privacy and remoteness. But that's changed now. The more people you have out there the less likely that those sites will be protected. There have been many many people on the beaches that you get Alaska Corp's region familiarity with the area will make site protection continue to be a problem. Reporting from Downey's Alaska I'm soo rattly we got people working on it. We're not going to stop. He stopped and said Now you know I am not going to start it. There is. A. Mechanical. They're in there already. Kill him.

Oh I did anything I thought oh you know I said thank you you just made my day. They're calling in a regatta. They want a large showing a boat off shore from the pipeline terminal on September 9th to show their dissatisfaction with the spill the cleanup and efforts to prevent future spills. Organizer Kelly Weaver ling of Cordova district fishermen United says seven foreign flags supertankers regularly carry oil from the pipeline to the Virgin Islands. These are all for a large crew carriers bigger than the Exxon Valdez ultra large crude carriers in fact the ones we're talking about 50 percent. And you know and I did a clean up of the claims cost. We want to know what the supertanker are capable of being able to respond to the spill and that's why now we ask it confirms that foreign flagged tankers are used but points out it's a very small portion of their traffic

spokesperson Tom Brennan says they carry oil for the Amerada Hess corporation around Cape Horn to refineries in the West Indies thereby escaping the Jones Act requirement the US bottoms be used for U.S. cargo the refined products are then shipped into the U.S. for sale. I'm sure that people are going to the letter the thing is this information is a little and I would suspect that it may be right or it may be. It means the spirit of the fishermans group is calling for all of us good to take responsibility for the foreign flag tankers Brennan says they already are responsible. They'd handle any containment and recovery the tanker owners couldn't and worry about the money later weaving says Alyeska also ought to be responsible for preventing spills. He suggests a container was a sion process he says the demonstration is intended to show that while oil companies may have a lot of money to spend influencing public opinion about spill issues people can get their message across to a

lot of talk about action. Dividing the people. I certainly hope that that's not the case I haven't seen it to be so. CARDONA And I'd like to change physically and with a large event like this. It's my hope that it will be really so interesting that it will get some national media attention and bring this little known fact if once like takers to the public for the Alaska Public Radio Network. I'm Steve Hamill. The Nature article looks at what happened to several species of birds after an oil spill in Antarctica last January. As expected many birds suffered. It was penguins died directly from being soaked with oil. The adults of another species apparently were so preoccupied by cleaning oil from their feathers that they failed to protect their young from predators. On the other hand scavenger birds called petrels produce 30 percent more young this year partly because they based it on Penguin carcasses. But it spills give benefits at all. They are limited.

That's the view of environmental and oil industry experts. Maitland shark conservation director for the Isaac Walton League of America says the Nature article misses the big picture about oil spills. Practically any major sell to the environment. Ends up hurting many species perhaps often benefiting some others. But the important point is that it ends up weakening the whole system by upsetting the balance. That's a major point. I think that the public should be focusing on respect to the oil spill in Alaska and other such environmental disasters not just count. Don't say that this particular piece of research. Has a great story spread the notion ecology expert with Greenpeace USA agrees that benefits to some animals can't compare

with the destruction inflicted by oil spills especially those as big as the Exxon Valdez spill. Clearly pollution is degrading and in some cases causing the collapse of marine ecosystems from various sources and I think these incident is a clear example of a disaster that has caused the demise of numerous species and to deny that one species we can even measure yet Smith says environmentalists are worried about the toll secondary effects of the oil spill will take on Alaskan Wildlife She says One example is the fate of Alaskan eagles which are not adjusting to the Exxon Valdez spill the way petrels adapted to the Antarctic is Bill many of the eggs didn't hatch the fear because they were contaminated many of the birds Eagles died writing couldn't hear any of it and abandoned it. And then deciding to make impact on a predatory species and species that has been said lethal effects of contamination in their

habitat. Experts in the oil industry agree spills cause more problems than benefits for the environment especially in the case of the Alaskan spill. June Seba an oil spill expert with Arco says her concern goes beyond the spill to the environmental impact of some cleanup techniques. In some cases they've had to use some rather harsh techniques like hot water. And if if any organisms were still alive on those beaches they certainly weren't after harsh techniques like that. So I think one of the things will be interesting to see are studies that will be are being done now following up the effects of cleanup. There are there certain beaches that are going to be left and cleaned and so we'll see what natural recovery does and then see how that compares with the various cleanup techniques that were used there. Study of the Exxon Valdez incident will give a better picture of how extensively oil spills can damage the environment. But environmentalists are worried disputes over the initial cleanup have captured the attention of policymakers and the needed research will come through late or not get done at all

for Alaska Public Radio this is Joel Southern in Washington D.C.. This would reduce the exposure of the community to workers on end of employment it would encourage the mobilized workers to return to truth for once all of those who wanted to stay and work that's one thing for those who just want to kick out the jams or go home and do it. Addressing the valley's City Council Local resident Dave hare Mike raised the issue of the social impacts that will accrue from the dismissal of thousands of oil spill workers and harken back to those first day I think early in the spill the liquor very special facilities being open until 5 provide a place warm and dry for people who as it were had no housing or no place to go to hang out until breakfast time or until a Job Service opened at 6:00 the next morning. Haddock suggested that the council consider action and a temporary ordinance that would restrict bar hours to one or two o'clock in the morning at least on weeknights from as soon as possible to November

15th or even of number 30 at council members selling McAdoo noted that a similar mat that is currently on trial in Seward I noted that. Stewart is definitely doing this brought it forward. They have a lot of public hearings and so far it has not been that well accepted during the initial suggestion was not altogether well accepted in these either. And we Irish owner of the glacier bar heard Haneke proposal on the radio and hurried to the council chambers. Are you going to have you going to have the same people that he's talking about. They're going to walk around the streets looking for a place to break into. And by eliminating hours I don't think that's going to be all your problem. Irish insists the changes in bar hours have been tried in the past and should be left alone now with owners allowed to regulate their own establishment. This has been done in the past years as it's been revealed it's been opened up again. Back and forth and I think it ought to stay right where it is

and I think it's up to the businesses. Take care of the proud self Exxon's general manager Otto Harrison says Work crews are on rotating shifts and will probably be laid off as they cycle out for are unarmed. Harrison says some will move to the Saudis some through Seward sums are wittier some to Kodiak and maybe some to home but he says the objective for the cities involved is that people don't overnight. They go directly to a clearing site. It's got an army discharge system. You come in you know you get your you cleared off the payrolls you get your final checks you get medical if you need that you get on a bus and you go. Harrison says the two clearing points will be Anchorage and down Dede's and demobilization is in progress. Two hundred fifty two people were removed from Exxon's total yesterday reporting from down D S M C rapidly. The ICI unit in Kodiak will take seven to ten days to repair the SEAL unit is waiting for another permit. Both barges are flat bottomed and weather susceptible So no

matter when they finally get started they're only expected to operate through the first week of September. But despite problems Exxon general manager Otto Harrison says by the end of October all the oily waste will be gone. GOFF saw Noll's know liquid waste no solid waste. Exxon is continuing to ship oily solid waste to the North Slope Borough incinerator and the two shredders in Anchorage and Seward currently almost 900000 tons have been disposed of and a huge amount of oily debris stock proud of the day the roadside Invalides has been reduced by half. Reporting from bounty I'm so raptly. I would like to physically demonstrate that. We are. Solid strength and that we are unified. As quote a large corporation and was able to spend quite a lot of money and put a lot of people in the field to try and do something to mitigate

the oil spill. We're wondering whether or not for fly crackers can do that as well. Face it you know they are running tankers through that sound all winter if if it's really so dangerous after September 15th. That they can't melt or do a cleanup effort. What are they doing sending tankers through there what happens if there was a spill on September 16th when there has to be an ability to continue to do some things and I think the all or nothing approach that they've. That they've taken to date just is not realistic. Neither that case or any of the other cases that have been filed address the cleanup itself. And what we're trying to do is affect that process and effect it in the near term as opposed to the longer term. Certainly the litigation of all those other cases I'm sure will go on for years and by that time there may well be nothing further that

can be done as far as cleanup operations and our objective is to see that from this point forward as much as done as possible to bring. The sound back on as you know as expeditious a. Man approaches can be done. Exxon says in its plan will come back in March and will sit down and will start talking about what can be done. Well based on what we saw this summer that'll mean that you know by next June Exxon most still be talking and Exxon will still be thinking about what it could do or what it wants to do even after the agencies have weighed in and given their opinions. So we want to make sure that the decision making process occurs in whose time we have fashioned practical so that we don't have the kinds of delays that we saw this summer. At a press briefing last Friday Exxon general manager Otto Harrison expected three weeks use of the incinerator barges to get rid of the massive backlog of oily debris.

Probably true about the first week of September. They are flat bottomed barges they will be weather susceptible. So that's probably you're only talking about maybe three weeks of operation of those incinerated. But it's been five days since then and still neither incinerator is burning waste or expects to be for a while yet. Just as crews were preparing to feed waste material into the rotary kiln incinerator at Kodiak major damage with discovery. Exxon predicts it will take seven to ten days for replacing repair operations manager Bill Rainey said during the downtime. Exxon will continue to work with DC to find an alternate site hopeful that if you know it is concluded there's an alternative site that's acceptable our concern that a move could be accommodated without. Neither do I and instead a writer start up obviously we're very concerned that the mechanical problems are considerably delayed it from what we'd hoped for.

And there are only so many days remaining when it can be used it also will want to take a look at that too and continue to dialogue with you know it at the Philly barge in Prince William Sound. The addition of auxillary burners to allow preheat to the required 700 degrees and the addition of one of spray equipment to increase cooling meant that Exxon had to go through the permitting process again installation of the equipment was expected to be completed by the day. But according to DC the on scene coordinator city program and the permit is not ready yet. No Anchorage has received it and they may have to review it and possibly modify it to take into account prevention of significant deterioration requirements and that should take a maximum of 5 days to do X and waste manager Rob dragnet says the start up problems with the waste incinerator barges are not unusual and should in no way indicate inferior design or equipment.

These are big pieces relatively like they're not of some inline unit ledges like you wouldn't get into and turn the key and start up with them. You're going to normally have some problems. We were think it unfortunate that our requests for test burns earlier this summer were denied. We think that had we been allowed to proceed with the temperance we wouldn't cover these kind of problems earlier. Would love a much smoother repair and had less impact on next with enough operations. While waiting for these delays Exxon is continuing to ship only solid ways to the North Slope Borough incinerator and the two shredders in Anchorage and Seward. Currently almost 19000 tons have been disposed up and the huge amount of oily debris stockpiles of the dado roadside Invalides has been reduced by half. Exxon's out of Harrison says by the end of October it will all be gone gone gone into what I said vanish. I mean dog. OK. No no liquid waste no solid waste we think we'll have that done at the end of October.

Reporting from Valmy I'm through raptly. At a meeting of the interagency shoreline committee Monday officials called the fluorescent orange markings offensive and set about to find the culprits responsible. It was Can Middleton of the Department of Fish and Game who discovered the identity of the spray painter as it turns out those responsible for the damage are an official damage assessment team. I think we have tracked it down we're quite certain now that it's part of the damage assessment reconnaissance team establishing long term baseline study stations. This involves a series of approximately one hundred fifty damage assessment study sites. Prince William Sound Cook Inlet Kodiak Alaska Peninsula area the damage assessment team is part of a large scale program under the secretary of the interior. This particular group is headed up by the Department of Fish and Game and includes representatives from the University of Alaska the Forest Service and the National Marine Fishery Service. The team painted

aero crosses and flashes on various sides so the areas could be readily identified from the air. As I understand it these are. These have been placed above the above the storm line as high as possible and the purpose of those are for a ready aerial identification for the other agencies and other people that will be coming back to these exact same spots over the next two or three years to do a dish no long term studies regarding damage assessment from the oil spill. The dayglo markings are semi-permanent and will be washed off when the studies are completed in about two years. Middleton says he's been unable to contact Fish and Game damage assessment crew but he's 98 percent sure they are the ones responsible for the marking. It's almost certain the problem is we can't talk. We have no ready weight. Talk to people who are out there in the special back room the watershed that can middle pin of the Department of Fish and

Game reporting from Kodiak. I'm Charlene parent when they can I think Dr. heard about their plight. They offered assistance. The best way they knew how they cast their 60 foot subsistence nets and harvested more than 100 silver Senator Claire Swan is the chairwoman of the can I think. We just told them that we can tell you that some you know all of the fish were packed in ice and they were they were they were real fast. The whole equating you know we have a whole we were happy to get over that fence and bad teeth of English Bay when the fish arrived at the village in no time at all to start processing them or I think they got their hair you know it was like ice. No never heard. MICHAEL VINCENT

says that one of the legacies of this oil spill is that natives are no longer looking out for each other because they're getting too exposed to Western ways. But as far as Clare Swan is concerned the native way of helping each other is still strong. That's what traditional customary I think it is or because it's part of it is what you are doing all the stuff you have to do to make. Somebody else get cooking you get from Homer Alaska is incarnate. You know they are running tankers through that. It's really so dangerous. After September that they can't melt or do a cleanup effort. What are they doing there what happens. Exxon can only use correct that with one trained work crew of about 25 people at one site on Smith Island. The operation will be closely monitored by experienced personnel and decisions will be based on the observations of Coast Guard

EPA and DC. If the Exxon crew can satisfactorily prove that correct that is a more efficient cleaner and oil can be contained or recovered. The three monitors can allow Exxon to expand to a second team and then a third and fourth. If Exxon cannot demonstrate its ability to overcome operational problems or if it's obvious there's no benefit to be gained from using Carex if the Coast Guard EPA or DC can halt the chemical treatment. Exxon says it will begin today. Reporting from Dow D. I'm soo RACKLEY. So from our standpoint it is taking a massive crime a transportation standpoint. In a law like this. The larger the more efficient and effective the transportation is what Exxon is saying today is that we'll come back next spring. Look at it see where it is and then think about what we're going to do and what we say is that that's

not good enough that they need to start now. And there's no reason they can't start you know because we all know there's going to be weathered oil on the beaches next spring. They should be looking at options to deal with that now and not waiting till then and then next summer. The bigger the more economical it is. Well the incremental basis the cost to carry a barrel of oil. That would be the anemometer that run. Is cheaper than a 50000.