Exxon Valdez: 30 Years Later | 5

American Scandal

Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, History Daily, American History Tellers, Lindsay Graham

4.6 • 18.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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It’s been 30 years since the Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Port William Sound, but the disaster still reverberates. A conversation with marine conservation professor and Alaska fisherman Rick Steiner about the state of things today. Plus, journalist and author Antonia Juhasz on how Exxon Valdez compares to the 2010 BP oil spill.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American Scandal add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:19.0	From Wondering, I'm Lindsey Graham and this is American Scandal.
0:30.0	This is the last episode on our series on the Exxon Valdez disaster.
0:46.0	Just past midnight on March 24th, 1989, the Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William's sound.
0:53.0	At first, hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil poured into the clear blue water.
0:57.0	Then it was millions.
0:59.0	The Supertanker bound for Long Beach, California ran a ground about 22 miles south of Valdez early Friday morning after loading a cargo of 1.25 million barrels from the Alaska Pipeline.
1:10.0	Oil poured into the sound at the rate of 20,000 gallons an hour for 12 hours.
1:15.0	At the time, the spill was the worst man-made ecological disaster in the country's history.
1:20.0	Emergency workers and response teams were dispatched to the ship to contain the flow and clean up what oil they could.
1:27.0	A five-mile long oil slick is moving out to sea. Exxon is flying in three plane loads of cleanup crews from around the world to help contain the spill.
1:36.0	But you can't unspill what's been spilled. Even if you've got at your disposal the resources of the biggest energy company in the country. Exxon.
1:45.0	You have some good love and you don't realize you have Exxon and we do business straight.
1:52.0	We will consider whatever it takes to keep you whole.
1:57.0	The Exxon Valdez spill, now 30 years old, changed the lives of everyone in the communities of Valdez, Cordova and surrounding areas.
2:02.0	As a result of the spill, we will consider whatever it takes to keep you whole.
2:07.0	As a result of the spill, industry regulations changed, shipping got safer and yet oil spills continue.
2:14.0	You have information now that this rig has gone under?
2:17.0	It has gone under the surface at about 10.21 this morning and Coast Guard got worried that the vessel has gone under.
2:23.0	And just recently we got worried that the fire visibly has gone out.
2:28.0	In 2010, thousands of people were killed by the spill.
2:34.0	In 2010, thousands of miles away from Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Mexico, a deep-water drilling rig operated by BP exploded.
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