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Alaskans need to unite against Navy exercises
I was one of the many local citizen activists who rose up in response to the catastrophic 1989…
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Cook Inlet navigation: Is it really safe as can be?
Most people don’t think about the safety of marine navigation in Cook Inlet. They didn’t before the Exxon…
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Are we better prepared for big Cook Inlet spill?
Crude oil tankers and non crude fuel barges transit Cook Inlet all year round, and no one is…
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Muller presents ‘Remembering’ talk on Exxon Valdez spill
Homer environmental artist, basket and story weaver Mavis Muller presents “Remembering: Community Art as Healing Force” at 6…
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Senate panel hears Exxon Valdez funding measure on spill anniversary
JUNEAU — On the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Senate Judiciary Committee took up…
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Remembering Prince William Sound
I wrote this song, Water and Oil Don’t Mix, (watch video below) for the approaching 25th year anniversary…
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound — “fetched up,” in…
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Exxon Valdez oil spill: 25 years later
Truth is one of the first casualties of war, and in Alaska, truth was the first casualty of…
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After the spill: Sound ‘recovering’
BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG STAFF WRITER Twenty-five years after the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound…
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Residents still carry spill’s hurt
By McKibben Jackinsky Staff writer As word spread that the belly of the Exxon Valdez, a tanker carrying…
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Exxon Valdez oil spill response spurs area residents into action
Editor’s note: With 2014 marking the Homer News’ 50th anniversary, it’s the perfect time to look at Homer’s…
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Homer’s Best Bets
Sometimes the Betster isn’t tuned in to all the action going on in the world. On Monday while…
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Fireweed students give fresh eyes to a 25-year-old disaster
They might not have been born when it happened, but ask the fifth- and sixth-grade students at Fireweed…