Aleutian Islands Oil Spill News

Selendang Ayu Oil Spill News

August 22, 2006

• Maps made to help ships find safe refuge in waters near Kodiak
  HARBORS: Group analyzes coast to protect sensitive areas from pollution by stricken boats [Kodiak Daily Mirror]
  

August 4, 2006

• Save Aleutians From Man Made Threats [Anchorage Daily News]

June 16, 2006

• Divers start dismantling grounded freighter [Anchorage Daily News]

June 1, 2006

• Oil cleanup from grounded tanker may conclude this year [Anchorage Daily News]

December 26, 2005 - January 1, 2006

• Seven Part Series on the Selendang Ayu [Anchorage Daily News]

December 14, 2005

• Chevron refuses to do oil-spill exercise [Seattle Times]
• The best response to an oil spill is to prevent it [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

December 12, 2005

• Spill lessons: Skip the stalling and get going [Anchorage Daily News]
• Alaska '04 Oil Spill Damages Still Being Tallied [Planet Ark]

December 8, 2005

• Ships near Aleutians called a hazard [Anchorage Daily News]
• Shipping safety can be improved [Seattle PI]
• Group calls ships near Aleutians a hazard [Kodiak Daily Mirror]

December 7, 2005

• Coalition calls for stricter shipping safety measures [Alaska Public Radio Network]
• On the bright side, by now everyone knows how to spell "Selendang Ayu" [Seattle PI]
• Group says state still hasn’t learned from Selendang Ayu [KTUU]
• Storm threatens to spill more Selendang Ayu oil [KTUU]
  

October 2005

• Dereliction of duty: Ripples from breakup of Selendang Ayu rock federal, Alaskan Authorities [American Shipper]
• Aleutian storm causes new spill at Selendang Ayu [KTUU]

August 2005

• Workers taking apart grounded freighter [Associated Press]

July 2005

• Chukchi oil and gas leases may be offered [Anchorage Daily News]
• Aleutian spill [Anchorage Daily News]
• Bering Sea ships at risk, study says [Anchorage Daily News]
• Big changes urged to avert spills [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
• Selendang Ayu Report Press Release [Alaska Oceans Program]

June 2005

• Will Exxon have to follow through? [Anchorage Daily News]
• More protection against oil spills needed [The San Diego Union-Tribune]

May 2005

• High-tech ship sets course for green ocean transport [Reuters]
• Alaska Beaches Oil Spill Cleanup Moves Ahead [Environment News Service]
• Oil spill cleanup fund running low [Marine Log]

April 2005

• Oil not the only mess left by freighter [Alaska Journal of Commerce]
• Where would ANWR oil go? [Seattle Times]

February 2005

• Update 1: Study: Field Development Should Be Halted [Forbes]
• Whale Probe Seen Negative for Russia Oil Plan -WWF [Reuters]
• Aleutian Oil Spill Now Biggest in Alaska Since 1989 [Reuters]
• Selandang Aye cleanup ends for winter [Anchorage Daily News]
• Shipwreck cleanup deferred until spring: Oil clearing mostly done; more beaches, wreckage on tap for April [Anchorage Daily News]

January 2005

• Shipwreck cleanup resumes; fuel oil, birds, waste collected [Anchorage Daily News]
• New images show size of Unalaska spill [KTUU TV, Anchorage]
• UNALASKA: Crab fishery escapes oil threat [Anchorage Daily News]
• World-class Prince William Sound escort system could be in peril (scroll down) [The Seldovia Herald]
• Plan to guard state's waters needed [Anchorage Daily News]
• First oil is removed from wrecked freighter [Anchorage Daily News]
• Oiled birds' odds better but not good [Seattle Times]

December 30, 2004

• Alaska Oil Spill Takes Toll on Animals and Fisheries [New York Times]
• Salvage of fuel from wrecked freighter delayed by bad weather [Anchorage Daily News]

December 29, 2004

• Close-up look at oiled Unalaska beaches reveals wreck's impact [Anchorage Daily News]
• Rescue chopper's black box retrieved [Seattle Times]
• We must reverse complacency over oil-spill management [Seattle Times]

December 28, 2004

• Alaska oil spill damage now looks worse [Seattle Times]
• Oil spill closes fisheries in Bering Sea [Anchorage Daily News]
• Rats! Alaskan shipwrecks pose risk of rodent invasion [San Jose Mercury News]
• Crews ready to pump oil from wreck [Anchorage Daily News]

December 27, 2004

• Fuel from shipwreck closes crab fishery [Anchorage Daily News]

December 26, 2004

• Weather makes oil cleanup slippery - Harsh winds, huge waves in Bering Sea hamper salvage ships [San Francisco Chronicle]
• Alaskan oil spill is much larger than originally anticipated [Barre Montpelier Times Argus]

December 25, 2004

• Oil freighter's bow finally sinks in Bering Sea [Napa Valley Register]

December 24, 2004

• Divers fail to locate helicopter's black box [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
• Half of ship is sinking [Anchorage Daily News]
• Huge spill feared as ship's bow sinks [Seattle Times]

December 21, 2004

• Spill could affect fisheries [Anchorage Daily News]
• Fierce storm might worsen oil spill [Seattle Times]

December 20, 2004

• For some, Alaska oil spill will be season's big haul [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
• Tough battle against oil spill amid icy seas [Seattle Times]

December 19, 2004

• Spill could affect fisheries [Anchorage Daily News]

December 18, 2004

• More oil spills as seas rise [Fairbanks Daily News-Miner]
• One more Selendang consideration: soybeans [Anchorage Daily News]

December 17, 2004

• Texas group will consider oil salvage from ship [Anchorage Daily News]
• Risks let to tragedy [Anchorage Daily News]
• Fuel starts leaking again from wrecked freighter [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
• Alaska spill hasn't grown; cleanup is taking shape [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
• Oil-cleanup strategy pondered as crews start work on marsh [Seattle Times]

December 16, 2004

• Freighter's leaky bow section left to fate [Seattle Times]
• Wreck's oil will be left for winter [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
• Freighter failed to communicate [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

December 15, 2004

• Aleutian Islands Bear Dangers for Freighters [NPR]
• Bulk-ship accidents have declined [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
• Worsening weather threatens salvage off the coast of Alaska [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
• Experts scramble for way to drain oil from split ship [Seattle Times]
• Effects of oil spill in Alaska could linger in remote bay [Seattle Times]

December 14, 2004

• Death on the high seas -- why? [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
• Effects of oil spill in Alaska could linger in remote bay [Seattle Times]
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Response to Vessel Grounding/Oil Spill off Unalaska Island [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

December 13, 2004

• Route lacks safety measures [Fairbanks Daily News-Miner]
• Aleutian Oil Spill Shows Area's Problems [Reuters]
• Alaskan Oil Spill Assessment and Control Begins [Environmental News Service]
• Salvagers reach freighter, find it oozing more oil [Anchorage Daily News]
• Wilderness catastrophe clean-up [Sydney Morning Herald]

December 12, 2004

• Alaska Oil Spill Crews Seize on Calmer Weather [Reuters]
• Weather Stalls Attempts to Contain Alaska Spill [Reuters]
• Disaster avoidable, professor says [Anchorage Daily News]

December 11, 2004

• Dramatic rescue of ship attempted in brutal seas [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
• Fears of oil spill disaster grow [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

December 10, 2004

• Unalaska oil spill spreads to 10 miles of coast [KTUU]
• Broken cargo ship creates major oil spill [KTUU]
• Aleutian Wildlife Refuge Threatened by Oil Spill [NPR]
• Guardsmen from crash return to Kodiak [Kodiak Daily Mirror]
• Oil spreads; 6 still missing [Anchorage Daily News]
• Devastating spill feared [Seattle Times]

December 9, 2004

• Fuel leaking from grounded freighter, search continues [Anchorage Daily News]

December 8, 2004

• 700 Foot Freighter Adrift - Oil Spill Hazard [KMXT Kodiak]

Shipping Safety Partnership News

December 20, 2005

• Makah have voice at oil spill forum [Indian Country Today]

November 10, 2005

• Powerful senator revives plan for more oil tankers in Sound [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

July 13, 2005

• Big changes urged to avert spills [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
• Selendang Ayu Report Press Release [Alaska Oceans Program]

People for Puget Sound

• News links to oil spill prevention efforts in the Puget Sound region

Febraury 24, 2005

• Alaska Oil Spill Motivates New Shipping Safety Coalition [Environmental News Service]
• When will Alaska learn prevention is key to handling costly oil spills? [Anchorage Daily News]

January 31, 2005

• Crab harvest so far showing no sign of oil from freighter [Alaska Journal of Commerce]

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