There've been 350 peer reviewed studies since that we believe resoundingly demonstrate the recovery of Prince William Sound.
Incidents like the Gulf spill, or the Exxon Valdez disaster in Prince William Sound, Alaska, are horrific but rare.
Eco-systems (such as Prince William Sound) recover from oil spills to a substantial degree, and within decades, not centuries.
The nearest large rescue tugboats are stationed in Prince William Sound, too far away to be of much use.
Unidentified Man: By this afternoon, the Exxon Valdez had leaked 265, 000 barrels of oil into the waters of Prince William Sound.
Even Valdez, the pretty salmon-fishing town on Prince William Sound at the foot of the mountains, receives an average of eight feet of snow on its rooftops each winter.
Gliding across Prince William Sound by kayak, you can't imagine that the 986-foot Exxon Valdez ever spewed a drop of crude oil, let alone 11 million gallons.
This debacle could produce an endless round of litigation, while shrimpers, farmers, and small business owners go bankrupt, and the whole ecosystem collapses, a la Prince William Sound.
Ten years ago on March 24, 1989, 11.2 million gallons of oil spilt into Alaska's Prince William Sound after Captain Joseph Hazelwood skippered the Exxon Valdez onto Bligh Reef.
Maybe what really needs to be studied is the size of the Prince William Sound to that oil spill compared with the size of the Gulf to this oil spill.
At its current flow, the spill would take more than 260 days to rival the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, when about 11 million gallons spilled into Alaska's Prince William Sound.
As the biggest fishing town on Prince William Sound, Cordova may have suffered the greatest economic loss of any community in the aftermath of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Even if the oil never hits the coast in significant quantities, it remains in the Gulf of Mexico, a body of water that cannot be as easily overlooked as Prince William Sound, Alaska.
CORDOVA, Alaska (CNN) -- As the biggest fishing town on Prince William Sound, Cordova may have suffered the greatest economic loss of any community in the aftermath of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
To funnel increasing numbers into the interior, Princess is pushing rail traffic from Whittier, a remote town on the shores of Prince William Sound, to the Denali lodges, obviating the need to spend a night in Anchorage.
First settled as an Indian village, then used in the 1890s as a settlement for miners, Ellamar since 1992 has been home to the Prince William Sound Lodge, a refuge for adventurers who like a little luxury with their wilderness.
One of the ongoing problems that will be discussed at the conference by Kevin Stokesbury of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, is how a viral infection triggered by exposure to the oil has decimated Prince William Sound's stocks of Pacific herring.
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