This week we look at salmon, tariffs, the Pebble Mine project and Exxon Valdez paper piles. Pebble CEO says they have “taken a lot of the controversy out the project. “ There’s no end in sight for fishermen and others who are collateral damage in the trade war with China. The Year of Salmon hopes that managing Pacific …
Read More »Workers continue to clean up APL diesel spill in Buskin River
More than 1300 gallons of diesel spilled at the APL yard Fuel spilled into a ditch that led into the Buskin River DEC is investigating the cause of the spill Workers deploy fuel spill cleanup devices in the APL yard / photo by Maggie Wall Shipping containers stacked up near the APL yard / photo by Maggie Wall Less …
Read More »The response to the oil spill in the Shuyak Strait continues
Around 3,000 gallons of oil were released into the Shuyak Strait after this building collapsed. (Photo Courtesy of the Coast Guard.) Mitch Borden/KMXT At the end of February, 3,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Shuyak Strait about 50 miles north of the City of Kodiak. The oil was in a building that collapsed because of a severe windstorm. Since …
Read More »Wind causes oil spill north of City of Kodiak
A snapshot of the spill on Shuyak Island. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation) Kayla Desroches/KMXT On Monday, high winds knocked up to 3,000 gallons of fuel off a dock roughly 50 miles north of the City of Kodiak. According to a situation report from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, gusts of more than 80 mph Monday …
Read More »Monterrey Could Be On the Move Friday
A trawler sails out of Kodiak harbor past the grounded U.S. Army Reserve landing craft Monterrey Sunday, as the civilian landing craft Cape Douglas stands by with more oil spill containment boom. Jay Barrett/KMXT photo Jay Barrett/KMXT The U.S. Army Reserve landing craft Monterrey, which has spent all week aground in Kodiak after striking a rock and taking on water, …
Read More »DEC: No Harm to Wildlife Seen in Wake of Monterrey Spill
Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has revised downward the amount of diesel fuel spilled from the U.S. Army Reserve landing craft Monterrey, which was intentionally grounded late Friday night after hitting a charted rock, just off shore of downtown Kodiak. Steven Russel, the ADEC’s on-scene coordinator for Central Alaska, says at least 8,000 gallons were spilled from …
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