Valdez News

An oil industry watchdog group is pushing for construction of a special treatment plant to kill invasive species in ballast water carried aboard oil tankers calling on Valdez to load North Slope crude.

Editors note: Please click on the above image for a high resolution photo. VALDEZ, Alaska The tugboat Pathfinder has been safely towed to and moored at the Valdez Petroleum Terminal in the Port of Valdez at 12:56 a.m., Sunday.

Pathfinder in Valdez The tugboat Pathfinder that hit Bligh Reef, Dec. 23 is now in Valdez.

Eds: APNewsNow. AP Video. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Photo AKAND105, AKAND201, AKAND202, AKAND203 VALDEZ, Alaska A crippled tugboat the spilled fuel into Alaska's Prince William Sound after hitting the same reef that caused the Exxon Valdez oil disaster 20 years ago has reached port.

In the past month alone, Alaska has seen three major oil spills. Two of them took place in Prudhoe Bay, from BP pipelines and most recently, on Christmas Eve by an Alyeska Pipeline contractor in Prince William Sound in the same spot where the Exxon Valdez spill occurred.

Editors note: Please click on the above image for a high resolution photo. VALDEZ, Alaska The Crowley tugboat Pathfinder remains at anchor south of Busby Island and surrounded by containment boom with spill responders staged nearby.

March 24, 1989: Oil tanker hits Alaska reef March 24, 1989: An Exxon oil tanker has smashed into a reef near Valdez, Alaska, causing the worst oil spill since the Alaska pipeline opened 12 years ago.

A tugboat put in service to help prevent another oil spill disaster in Prince William Sound ran aground on the same reef as the Exxon Valdez 20 years ago in what remains the nation's worst oil spill.

After the major emitting countries agreed to the hastily made Copenhagen Accord late Friday night, President Barack Obama rushed onto Air Force One and jetted back across the Atlantic.

Alaska Dispatch , the Alaskan newspaper reported that 5 feet 8 inches of snow fell on a town in Sarah Palin's home state of Alaska.

Above: Photo taken at eye level of a sign already elevated because of seasonal snow issues.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Depending on whether they like snow, residents in Valdez either enjoyed or endured the town's second highest three-day snowfall on record.

The state Transportation Department has closed the Richardson Highway at Thompson Pass near Valdez due to high avalanche danger, heavy snowfall and blowing and drifting snow.

We FINALLY got rid of the fog late in the day on Sunday and in place of the fog we now have some snow.

NOVEMBER: But crude oil output is less than it was a year ago. Petroleum News Published: December 10th, 2009 10:23 PM Last Modified: December 10th, 2009 10:24 PM North Slope crude oil production for November averaged 699,675 barrels per day, the state Department of Revenue reported.

The recent revelations that senior climate scientists have been altering data to create a crisis where none exists is not news.

The same storm making a slick, drippy mess of Anchorage and parts of Mat-Su is dumping heavy, wet snow up the Glenn and Parks highways, causing major problems on some roads.

Members of the public interested in advising Alaska State Park managers on issues relating to state parks and outdoor recreation management in Valdez, Thompson Pass, and Northern Prince William Sound are invited to apply for membership on the Valdez Area State Parks Citizens Advisory Board.

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ExxonMobil is a big company with a history in Alaska to match. The company owns the largest share of the Prudhoe Bay unit and helped bring the trans-Alaska oil pipeline into operation in 1977 but also is responsible for the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, which only approached a legal conclusion in.... [additional news subjects in this story] ...