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The National Academy of Sciences estimate that 1.7 to 8.8 million tons of oil are released into world's water every year, of which more than 70% is directly related to human activities. The effects of these spills are all too apparent: dead wildlife, oil covered marshlands and contaminated water chief among them. This reference will provide scientists, engineers and practitioners with the latest methods use for identify and eliminating spills before they occur and develop the best available techniques, equipment and materials for dealing with oil spills in every environment. Topics covered include: spill dynamics and behaviour, spill treating agents, and cleanup techniques such as: in situ burning, mechanical containment or recovery, chemical and biological methods and physical methods are used to clean up shorelines. Also included are the fate and effects of oil spills and means to assess damage.

Covers spill dynamics and behaviour
Definitive guide to spill treating agents
Complete coverage of cleanup techniques
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Shortly after midnight on March 24, 1989, the987-foot tank vessel Exxon Valdez struck BlighReef in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Whatfollowed was the largest oil spill in U.S. history.The oil slick has spread over 3,000 square miles andonto over 350 miles of beaches in Prince WilliamSound, one of the most pristine and magnificentnatural areas in the country. Experts still areassessing the environmental and economicimplications of the incident. The job of cleaningup the spill is under way, and although the initialresponse proceeded slowly, major steps have beentaken.

The very large spill size, the remote location,and the character of the oil all tested spillpreparedness and response capabilities. Governmentand industry plans, individually and collectively,proved to be wholly insufficient to control an oilspill of the magnitude of the Exxon Valdezincident. Initial industry efforts to get equipmenton scene were unreasonably slow, and oncedeployed the equipment could not cope with thespill. Moreover, the various contingency plans didnot refer to each other or establish a workableresponse command hierarchy. This resulted inconfusion and delayed the cleanup.

Prepared by the National Response Team, thisreport was requested by the President andundertaken by Secretary of Transportation SamuelK. Skinner and Environmental Protection AgencyAdministrator William K. Reilly. The reportaddresses the preparedness for, the response to, andearly lessons learned from the Exxon Valdezincident. The President has also asked SecretarySkinner to coordinate the efforts of all federalagencies involved in the cleanup and AdministratorReilly to coordinate the long-term recovery of theaffected areas of the Alaskan environment. Theseefforts are ongoing.

The reportaddresses a number of important environmental,energy, economic, and health implications of theincident. ... Read more

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Here is the ultimate collection of up-to-date official documents, guides, manuals, job aids, and reports about every aspect of oil spill cleanup, response, assessment, and environmental restoration - ideal for anyone with a professional or personal interest in oil spill response! This comprehensive collection of professional, authoritative, fully illustrated documents provides over 30,000 pages reproduced in Adobe Acrobat PDF files, with over 60 major individual documents, from NOAA, EPA, U.S. Coast Guard, Interior Department, Fish and Wildlife Service, OSHA, and others. There is coverage of the usage of barriers, booms, cleaners, dispersants, sorbents, manual oil removal, mechanical oil removal, vacuum, sediment reworking and tilling, vegetation cutting and removal, deluge, ambient and hot water flushing, steam cleaning, sand blasting, solidifiers, shoreline cleaning agents, nutrient enrichment, natural microbe seeding, in-situ burning, and other control and containment measures; strategies for marine environments, deepwater, marshes, shorelines, coastlines, coral reefs, inland waters, freshwater environments, coastal habitats, mangroves, and other environments; impacts and cleaning protocols related to wildlife, fish, fisheries, birds, turtles, and other animals; planning and exercises for Spills of National Significance; financial liability issues; information on tarballs, types of crude oil, and open water oil identification; damage assessment procedures; use of tools for trajectory analysis; the history of the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska and bioremediation measures; and much more.Document titles include: EPA Chemical Shoreline Agents for Oil Spills; Guidelines for Bioremediation of Oil Contaminated Salt Marshes; Inland Oil Spills Training Program; Oil Pollution Act; Review on the Use of Commercial Bioremediation Agents; Understanding Oil Spills and Response; Chemical Dispersants for Marine Oil Spills; Bird Care; Characteristics of Response Strategies: Spill Response Planning in Marine Environments; Guidebook Oil Spill Planning under Pollution Control Act and Endangered Species Act; SMART Guidance for Burning and Dispersant Use; Acronyms & Definitions; Choosing Spill Response Alternatives for Characteristic Coastal Habitats; Damage Assessment and Restoration Program - Preassessment, Injury Assessment, Primary Restoration, Restoration Planning, Compensatory Actions; Dispersant Application Observer Job Aid; Sensory Testing and Monitoring of Seafood for Petroleum Taint; Injury Assessment under the Oil Pollution Act; Inland Oil Spills - Options for Minimizing Environmental Impacts of Freshwater Spill Response; Introduction to Coastal Habitats and Biological Resources for Oil Spill Response; Managing Seafood Safety after an Oil Spill; Marine Life Guide; Observers Guide to Sea Ice; Oil and Sea Turtles; Oil Spill Case Histories; Oil Spills in Coral Reefs; Oil Spills in Mangroves; Open Water Oil Identification Job Aid; Pre Assessment Phase Damage Under Oil Pollution Act; Responding to Spills in Coastal Marshes, Fine Line between Help and Hindrance; Selection Guide for Oil Spill Applied Technologies Decision Making; Shoreline Assessment Job Aid; Shoreline Assessment Manual; Shoreline Countermeasures Alaska; Shoreline Countermeasures Manual; Tarballs; Trajectory Analysis Handbook; Training Oil Spill Response Workers; USCG Environmental Protection in Oil Spill Response Planning, Developing Consensus Ecological Risk; USCG Oil Spill Response in Fast Currents. ... Read more

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This book is a Thesis whose aim is to study the effect of organic matter enrichment produced by marine finfish farming and oil spills on the marine environment. This work is focused on elucidating the ecological consequences of the impact generated by this type of pollution, and on designing toxictity tests to evaluate pollution for southern European coasts. The present thesis is introduced with a chapter that discusses issues related with the assessment of benthic impact due to marine finfish farming in the Mediterranean, emphasising the usefulness of toxicity tests as a tool for assessing pollution produced by fish farming, as well as by other types of organic enrichment. The results and conclusions derived from this thesis should contribute to our knowledge in these fields of research. ... Read more

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The rapid economic development of many countries since World War II has resulted in a considerable increase in the marine transport of raw materials, especially of crude oils, and in offshore activities. Inevitably, operational discharges from ships (ballast and bilge water), incidents such as collisions and groundings, and offshore exploration of oil and gas, lead to a significant amount of oil going into the sea. So far, understanding of marine environments, of oil and its behaviour when released onto the water surface, and of the methods and means of response to an oil spill, has been rather limited. This book introduces the reader to these problems and reflects the levels and trends of development in the field. The author has played an active role in combating marine pollution in the international arena since the 1970s and was awarded the International Maritime Prize for 1989 by the International Maritime Organisation. ... Read more

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International experts in the field of oil spill response, including reprsentatives from 26 NATO countries, participated in a workshop in Canada to discuss their experience in the development and application of current and emerging technologies for oil spill response in the marine environment. These presentations which form the basis of chapters in this book provide a practical viewpoint of methods used to deal with oil spills under the variety of environmental conditions found in the marine environment. In particular, focus is given to the evaluation of oil spill countermeasures for use under arctic conditions in light of anticipated regional increases in marine traffic (e.g. Northwest Passage) and industrial activities (e.g. offshore oil and gas exploration) in the future.

This book provides a timely international perspective on applied research and development, technology transfer, and “lessons learned” from field trials and actual case studies associated with recent spill events. Topics include Preparedness/Contingency Planning, (Eco-terrorism); Oil Spill Fate and Transport (Environmental Persistence, Remote Sensing, modelling, Biodegradation), Biological Effects (Environmental Effects Monitoring and Environmental Risk Assessment); and Operational Response (Containment/Recovery Treating Agents, Shoreline Cleanup, In-situ Burning, Emerging Response Strategies). This book provides a synopsis as to the methods currently employed to deals with spills and an insight on future technologies under development.

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Ten years later, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill inPrince William Sound remains the largest tanker spill in the historyof North America, and in its devastating effects upon wildlife andhabitat, arguably the most damaging tanker spill in the history of theworld. First released in 1991, John Keeble's account, Out of theChannel, combined on-the-scene witnessing of the oil spill's lethalresults with analysis of its ramifications upon ecology, community,economy, law, the nature of public information, and upon the Americanmythos. The aftermath of the oil spill, and no less transforming, thespill of Exxon's money and power, reached into every sector of Alaskanlife as well as into the conscience of the people of the lowerforty-eight states. The event is now seen as one of a handful ofsignal ecological disasters of the twentieth century.

The new "Tenth Anniversary' edition of Out of the Channel adds to itsevocative, original text a new and full assessment of the permutationsand twists of big money, big litigation, and "petroleum speak" fromthe vantage point of several years' remove, as well as an account ofthe 1991, $1 billion civil settlement between Exxon, the U.S. JusticeDepartment, and the State of Alaska-the largest such environmentalsettlement ever. In this now definitive book on the oil spill, all theprimary concerns of the first edition are updated with new material,including the cause of the ship's grounding on Bligh Reef, the fate ofCaptain Joseph Hazelwood, the long lasting effects of the spill, theprojected death toll among animals, the little-known 1993 fisherman'stanker blockade, late-developing evidence about the true quantity ofoil spilled, the benefits and abuses of professional science, as wellas the heartening results of citizen pressure to improve oil shippingprocedures in Prince William Sound and to protect fragile habitat. ... Read more

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Universal guilt
Newspaper stories about the oil spill created the impression that the cause of the accident was simply that the captain was drunk. This book shows that the real situation was far more complex. The captain was definitely not drunk. He did have a few drinks, which is against regulations. Even after all the analysis it is not clear what exactly went wrong. The fact that the captain had a few drinks was not the only breach of regulations. None of the officers had a six-hour off duty time in the twelve-hour period before departure. The ship was single hulled instead of double hulled as was foreseen when the oil terminal was built. When Congress granted permission to build the pipeline and the terminal one of the conditions was that there would be a state-of-the-art contingency plan for oil spills. There was nothing of the sort. A Vessel Traffic Services station was supposed to monitor the movement of the ships through the strait. Due to cost cutting measures the station was unable to monitor the movement of the ship. A major cause of inefficiency in the clean up was the lack of clarity about who was in charge, the Coast Guard or Exxon. It is not just the captain that acted irresponsibly, so did all parties concerned. This is described in one part of the book. The second part of the book describes the impact of the oil spill and especially of the clean up on the communities affected. Each of the communities split in the middle. Half of the members took the position of trying to squeeze as much money out of Exxon as possible whilst the other half did not want to have anything to do with Exxon. Exxon did not succeed in engaging the communities in a positive way. The third part describes the nature in Alaska. These descriptions are wonderful and make you want to go there. These three parts are interwoven. The advantage is that the reader gets a three dimensional understanding of what happened: the responsibility for the disaster and the clean up, the impact on different members of the community and the impact on nature. The author places the ultimate responsibility on the consumer. He writes, " the American population prefers to live in a fog and is willing to accept almost anything in return for the opportunity to keep its gas tanks topped up" (with cheap gas). The combination of corporations maximising short-term profits and consumers closing their eyes to the consequences of their behaviour makes one worried. There must be a better way.

A humane account of a whitewashed catastrophe
Out of the Channel should be required reading for anyone who thinks environmentally ... not just environmentalists, but students, political andeconomic theorists, and most of all, writers. I had the good fortune tolearn a great deal about writing from John Keeble, and reading his book isan education all by itself. As a rigorous study of the physical and humanimpact of the Exxon Valdez disaster, Out of the Channel is a comprehensiveanatomy, a text that does not shirk any of the heavy load its vast subjectdemands. Without taking the easy route of righteous anger, Keeble exploresevery nuance of the oil spill, and he follows that tenacious blot ofPrudhoe Bay crude as it seeps out of the tangible world and into the mindsand spirits of the permanent and temporary inhabitants of Prince WilliamSound. This tenth anniversary edition, with the expanded coverage allowedby the perspective of time, is a gift that should not be overlooked.

A brilliant account of the Valdez oilspill and its aftermath
John Keeble, whose writing focuses on the issues facing the American Northwest, paints a memorable picture of the Exxon Valdez oilspill and its aftermath. Asked by the Greenwich Village Voice to write an article on the spill, he travels to Alaska and observes first-hand the efforts made to restore the land and the wildlife.However, the more he observes the more he is haunted by two observations: 1) that the size of the oil companies, and the entangled relationship between the companies and the government, is enormously greater than we have suspected, and 2) that the vast amounts of money poured into the clean-up effort causes many to view that money as their goal.His investigations into the clean-up follow a theme he develops in his other works: that the intrusion of a company or government upon the land inevitably causes exploitation; and those who live in that land must invariably suffer the consequences.Torn between the desires to make money, to clear the oil, and to downplay the scope of the incident, the people involved with clean-up waste a good deal of their effort.The more damage Keeble assesses, the more in tune he becomes with the suffering of the people and animals truly hurt, and ultimately, the reader, too, feels the chill that shakes the author at each new discovery. ... Read more

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Discusses the factors and events that led to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, the cleanup effort afterwards, and the longterm consequences of the disaster. ... Read more

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Westward expansion brought stunning achievements and staggering failures to those who ventured into the unknown territory. Explore how our vast country grew far beyond the great Mississippi. ... Read more

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Original fiction/satire by Patrick L. Halliwell
Cover illustration by Kayoko Halliwell
Now also available in the Kindle collection, "Spying in the 21st Century and other selected humor/satire"
Available here in its original version, for those who wish to read it on its own.


In the messy wake of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, it has become clear that a new strategy is needed for handling offshore oil spills. This new strategy should include a complete and effective plan for the actual cleanup, and most importantly, a public relations strategy that will keep the press and the politicians off your backs.

Having a proper strategy will let corporate executives get their lives back quickly, so that they can concentrate on golfing and other more important activities.

This crafty little item explores various aspects of dealing with an oil spill, and bamboozling the press and the public at the same time.


About the Author
Patrick L. Halliwell is a Canadian author, composer and musicologist. His publications include fiction, humor, serious essays, practical items, and scholarly articles on traditional Japanese koto music. He is also creator and producer of "Phonobites," a unique set of exercises for English pronunciation. His original music combines musical principles and elements from a variety of the world's great traditions. His official website is www.lakipi.com
Patrick does not invest in oil.
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Clever little book!
When you're at a party, or with a gathering of friends, this quick little read is just the ice-breaker you need to get people laughing. Patrick's humor hits the nail right on the head! I'm looking forward to more such gems from Patrick L. Halliwell! ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This book critically examines the way newspaper and television journalists covered three events that were reported as disasters. The work focuses on the processes by which journalists identified sources and gathered data, on their professional values, and on how those values affected the reporting. The book is based on an examination of thousands of newspaper and television stories, surveys of more than 600 journalists and their sources, evaluations of news accounts by independent experts, personal visits to the catastrophe sites, and interviews with more than 100 reporters, correspondents, producers, editors, and their sources. ... Read more

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Approximately 3 million gallons of oil or refined petroleum products are spilled into U.S. waters every year. Oil dispersants (chemical agents such as surfactants, solvents, and other compounds) are used to reduce the effect of oil spills by changing the chemical and physical properties of the oil. By enhancing the amount of oil that physically mixes into the water, dispersants can reduce the potential that a surface slick will contaminate shoreline habitats. Although called for in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 as a tool for minimizing the impact of oil spills, the use of chemical dispersants has long been controversial. This book reviews the adequacy of existing information and ongoing research regarding the effectiveness of dispersants as an oil spill response technique, as well as the effect of dispersed oil on marine and coastal ecosystems. Oil Spill Dispersants also includes recommended steps for policy makers faced with making hard choices regarding the use of dispersants as part of spill contingency planning efforts or during actual spills. ... Read more

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Using the Exxon-Valdez incident as a backdrop, the authors explain the hazards of oil spills to the environment. ... Read more

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Our Planet in Peril presents the truth behind major environmental issues. The series gives the facts and figures, explains the real situation and describes some practical solutions. The main text is supplemented by photographs, maps and diagrams to explain all the issues involved, while 'Science in action' panels offer simple experiments which allow children to see the science in a practical context, and 'How you can help' panels suggest ways in which ordinary people can make a real difference. Endmatter includes a glossary and index, and page of useful websites for further information. ... Read more

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Explores what oil is and how it is used, the harm that is done when it is spilled into the ocean, and what can be done in the future to prevent such disasters as the 1989 wreck of the Exxon Valdez. ... Read more

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Describes how an oil spill occurs; the damaging effects of recent spills on the sea, land, and wildlife; and the difficult process of cleaning up after a spill. ... Read more