Leaking pipeline causes oil spill in Alaska (but dont worry about ANWR)

[BigBearJohn]

ANCHORAGE, United States (AFP) - Environmental workers in Alaska were racing to clean up 111,300 gallons (423,000 liters) of oily water that spilled from a leaky oil pipeline, officials told AFP.

Some 80 workers were battling to clean up the oily water that covers about two acres (0.8 hectare) in what ranks as one of the largest industrial spills ever seen in the oilfields of northern Alaska's North Slope region.

The leak of oil-contaminated water was discovered Saturday in an oilfield operated by ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc in Kuparuk, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation said.


"Around 111,300 gallons (421,000 liters) of a mixture of seawater and produced water, which is a mixture of water and crude oil, was released to both gravel pad and tundra," said the department's Amanda Leffel.

More: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&ncid=1540&e=5&u=/afp/20050330/sc_afp/usenvironmentoilspill_050330171812

[beyurslf]

1. Alaska is nothing but ice and snow. Who cares if it becomes one large

oil slick!

/sarcasm off

[htuttle]

2. Did some drunk shoot it again?

http://www.climateark.org/articles/2001/3rd/crclbiga.htm