Factoid/2014/03/05
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Some Oil Spill Cleanups Can Take Years (or Decades)
- "On Thursday, approximately 1,250 pounds of oily material was removed from a beach area near Fort Pickens, just west of Pensacola Beach. The oil was identified as MC-252, oil coming from the Macando well, which leaked an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf after the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010." and "Twenty-five years after the infamous Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, beaches on the Alaska Peninsula hundreds of kilometers from the incident still harbor small hidden pockets of surprisingly unchanged oil, according to new research being presented here today." - excerpts from articles at al.com and sciencedaily.com.
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