Living with the legacy of catastrophic oil spills

By Lesley Russell
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:59pm, first published March 27 2014 - 3:00am

March 24 marked the 25th anniversary of the environmental disaster caused when the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in the pristine waters of Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska, dumping 35,000 tonnes of crude oil and fouling about 1900 kilometres of coast line.

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