A post-Katrina release of oil has been compared to the much smaller 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. |
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Juan Valdez, whose bushily mustachioed face greeted millions of Colombian coffee admirers for almost four decades, officially retires. |
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It was the Exxon Valdez which ran aground on the Alaskan coast in 1989 spilling 40 million litres of crude oil. |
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Valdez could be a Boeing machinist, Microsoft code writer, garment maker or call-center receptionist. |
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Years later, while we listened to the Exxon Valdez clean-up operations over sideband radio, he explained what he called the clean-up problem. |
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Following the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, an intensive, global study of best practices in incident prevention was launched. |
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The city of Valdez had already been traumatised 25 years earlier by a devastating earthquake. |
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The Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska, provides a well documented account of oil spills killing and impairing O. orca. |
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People have the idea of an Exxon Valdez, with a gunky, smelly black tide looming over the horizon waiting to wash ashore. |
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An Alaskan population of killer whales is doomed to die off. A result of the Exxon Valdez disaster? |
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Marcela Valdez was detained by the National Police on May 17, 1991, while she was meeting a friend near the Plaza de Armas. |
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Exxon Valdez catastrophe, it took three years for the full effects to be felt on the ecosystem. |
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On a large scale this technology was used to clean up part of the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. |
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Oil companies had combined to form the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. inorder to transfer the North Slope oil to tankers docked at Valdez. |
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The brainchild of Jeff Valdez, a former comedian, SÃ TV strikes a blow neither for linguistic assimilationists nor for preservationists. |
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Valdez sensed that L.A., a city with no shortage of life-altering indigenous tacos, was ready for the concept. |
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In Valdez, where there are rocky shorelines, a lot of the oil is actually removed by processes such as winter storms. |
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In lieu of legally smoke-friendly bars or coffee shops, Valdez and others are creating smoking clubs. |
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I know my colleague is very well aware of issues like the Exxon Valdez and so forth. |
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A reversal of that conventional wisdom began taking shape in the early nineties, following the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound. |
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On March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground near the coast of Alaska. |
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The 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which spilled 11 million gallons into Alaska's pristine Prince William Sound, is permanently imprinted in the public consciousness. |
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The teenagers are taking part in a taekwondo lesson in the Manuel Valdez Community Centre, a tidy new facility for sport, arts and education. |
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For a more scenic journey, travel by ferry from Whittier or Valdez. |
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Once over the other side of the pass, I pulled off the main highway and followed an unploughed side road that led to the foot of the route the prospectors had taken across the Valdez Glacier in the gold rush days. |
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The Exxon Valdez oil spill adversely affected killer whales in Prince William Sound and Alaska's Kenai Fjords region. |
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There are few national-team coaches in world football that would not jump at the chance to call on forwards of the calibre of Paraguay's Nelson Haedo Valdez, Lucas Barrios and Roque Santa Cruz. |
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Thinking about this project coming into their communities, they often think of and fear the worst of the project, thinking about the oil spill in Valdez, Alaska, and of course that being an earthquake zone as well. |
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Mr. Valdez had murdered a corrections officer 12 years earlier. |
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There were huge losses related to the Piper Alpha oil platform explosion in the North Sea, the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, Hurricane Hugo, the San Francisco earthquake and a devastating windstorm in Europe. |
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A natural gas pipeline connects the Kenai gas fields to Anchorage, and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline delivers oil from Prudhoe Bay to ice-free tanker terminals at Valdez and to refineries near Fairbanks. |
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Television commercials shown in North America in the 1960s featured Juan Valdez in the coffee fields with his faithful mule, painstakingly selecting and hand-picking the ripest beans. |
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On the shores of the Valdez Peninsula in Patagonia, two young inseparable sea lionesses, Kim and Roxie, take us through an incredible 24-hour underwater odyssey. |
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Javier Valdez, a reporter at RÃodoce, specialises in stories about the way daily life in Sinaloa has become increasingly invaded by narco economics and culture. |
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They say that constantly improving extraction techniques will take more oil out of Prudhoe Bay than is now forecast, and will extend the life of the Trans-Alaska pipeline that carries Prudhoe Bay oil to Valdez. |
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I must stipulate that, following the Erika disaster, it has been extremely frustrating for me to see that we in Europe have been unable to do what the United States did after the Exxon Valdez incident. |
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While none of these spills was as big or as damaging as the Exxon Valdez or even the Hebei Spirit incident, a spill is a spill and is not acceptable, and Canada's luck may one day run out. |
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Could you maybe talk a little bit about comparing the current crisis here in the Gulf to the Exxon Valdez crisis and perhaps what we might have learned from that instance that we are now applying to the current situation? |
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The entire spillage of crude oil into Alaskan waters by the Exxon Valdez spillage in 1989 would be less than a day's spillage in the Russian countryside. |
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The effects of the Exxon Valdez disaster on this killer whale population highlight the risks involved in oil production in the marine environment. |
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I also went into the studio out there to record Negue with Chucho Valdez. |
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Considered by many to be the worst American environmental disaster since Three Mile Island, the Exxon Valdez spill validated Dr. Lee's bioremediation techniques at a scientific level. |
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After the 1989 oil spill at Prince William Sound by the Exxon Valdez, civil society has become increasingly concerned about Exxon Mobil's inability to engage with stakeholders on environmentally sensitive issues. |
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After the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989, people lost all faith in the selfregulating capabilities of the oil industry and the ability of their government to control them. |
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Smaller spills have already proven to have a great impact on ecosystems, such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill. |
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This is about eight times the amount spilled in the widely known Exxon Valdez incident. |
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The Prestige oil spill in 2002 spilt more oil than the Exxon Valdez in Alaska. |
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Response of common murres to the Exxon Valdez oil spill and long-term changes in the Gulf of Alaska marine ecosystem. |
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On an otherwise forgettable afternoon for the Dodgers, Wilson Valdez made sure people would remember him. |
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King already has Valdez entered in the race but Balder Succes deserves his chance after a three-and-a-half lengths victory over another Arkle entrant, Brick Red. |
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Juan Valdez won't take any business away from coffee companies such as Starbucks, Peet's, Gloria Jean's, Second Cup and Caribou, says SCAA Executive Director Ted Lingle. |
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Others, such as the Exxon Valdez allision and oil discharge, Hurricane Katrina, or the Deepwater Horizon blowout and deepwater discharge, happen about once a decade. |
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While he was working with Chavez in Delano, Valdez founded El Teatro Campesino, a theater that was of, by and for the Mexican-American migrant population. |
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Dodgers shortstop Wilson Valdez, right, turns a double play Thursday. |
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