Oil Spills

Agencies

• British Oil Spill Control Association   Formed by a number of companies whose interests centred on oil pollution.
• National Response Center   Sole federal point of contact for reporting oil and chemical spills.
• National Spill Control School   at Texas A&M Corpus Christi
• Oil Program Home Page   EPA
• Emergencies Science Division   Spill Research and Development Program
  (Canada)
• Oil Spill Prevention and Response   American Petroleum Institute
• Alaska DEP   Division of Spill Prevention and Response
• Office of Spill Prevention and Response (Calif.)
• NOAA Office of Response and Restoration
• NOAA's Oil Spill Emergency Response and Planning
• NOAA Support for Assessment and Prediction   Oil Spills
• Troubled Waters   WWF Info on what happens to wildlife when a stricken tanker's cargo spews into the ocean.

Oil Spill Stats, Images, Info.

Exxon Valdez

• EXXON VALDEZ    Notorious spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska on March 26,1989.10 Years After the Valdez Oil Spill: An Environmental Update.
• Ecosystem Modeling of Prince William Sound, Alaska   U. of British Columbia Fisheries Centre
• NMFS Alaska Regional Office   The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
• Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council   Provides info about the spill's impacts, injury and recovery of fish, wildlife and people of the region, plus ongoing restoration and research.
• Prince William Sound: Paradise Lost?
• Survivors of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill   Official Website of the Exxon Valdez Victims
• Oil Spill Sets Deadly Record for Sea Birds   Exxon Valdez Article
• ABCNEWS.com   Chat Transcript with Greg Kellogg, in charge of the EPA's on-site response to the Exxon Valdez spill.

Other Spills

• New Carissa   Bulk freighter wrecked near Coos Bay, Oregon on 11/4/99
• Rhode Island Oil Spill   Barge full of heating oil ran aground 1/19. Info, plus links to other resources on this spill.
• Sea Empress Oil Spill   Crude oil tanker grounded in Feb. 96 near SW Wales, UK.
• Sea Empress Oil Spill
• Oil Spill Images   Photos of some of the world's largest oil spills from NOAA OR&R
• Oil Spills   Brief synopsis of several world spills.
• More World Oil Spills
• North Sea Shipwreck (UK) Kills Thousands of Birds   11/23/98 article on devastation from wreck of "The Pallas"
• Past Spill Statistics   from International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited.
• Oil Spill Intelligence Report   List of Major Spills
• Institute of Petroleum   Oil Spill list and response info
• Alaska Resources Library and Info Services   Oil Spill Links

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