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  • Fairbanks News Miner-October 9, 2001
    Knowles happy with response to spill
    By MARMIAN L. GRIMES

    "Gov. Tony Knowles said Monday that he is satisfied with Alyeska Pipeline Service Company's response to the oil spill resulting from Thursday's shooting of the trans-Alaska pipeline..."




  • Fairbanks News Miner-October 11, 2001
    Spill dominates pipeline hearing
    By SEAN COCKERHAM

    "An official citizen's watchdog group is needed for independent oversight of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, several critics said during a Wednesday hearing on the pipeline's lease renewal. About a dozen people, many of them representing organizations, testified at the two-hour public hearing in Fairbanks..."




  • Anchorage Daily News-October 13, 2001
    Alyeska spill response receives high marks
    PIPELINE: Most feel company did all it could to stop oil flow.
    By BEN SPIESS

    "When a man shot the trans-Alaska oil pipeline Oct. 4, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. deployed truckloads of equipment, sent in hundreds of workers to mop up and flew in a team of spill control experts from Texas. But 24 hours later, thousands of gallons of oil were still spurting into the woods near Livengood uncontrolled. As he stood at the scene, Alyeska vice president Bill Howitt was grim: 'Under the circumstances, we have to wait.'..."




  • Fairbanks News Miner-October 13, 2001
    Agency probes spill response
    By SEAN COCKERHAM

    "As regulators prepare to evaluate Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.'s response to the oil spill near Livengood last week, U.S. Sen. Frank Murkowski has floated a suggestion for possible improvement..."




  • Anchorage Daily News-October 21, 2001
    Anchorage Daily News | Opinion
    Opinion
     Good enough?
    That's the question to ask about Alyeska spill response


    "Gov. Tony Knowles and the rest of his administration say that Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. and hundreds of workers responded superbly when a man literally triggered an oil spill of almost 300,000 gallons. Response was swift. The hole was plugged in 36 hours and the pipeline is up and running again. The question isn't whether Alyeska's people did well. They did. The question is whether they could have done better..."




  • Fairbanks News Miner-October 25, 2001
    Better response training needed
    By RICHARD A. FINEBERG

    "Two pictures frame the story of the recent trans-Alaska pipeline oil spill. The first, taken more than 24 hours after the pipeline was penetrated by a bullet Oct. 4, shows the oil arcing from the pipeline into the nearby trees in a thick, black stream while Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. personnel watch.

    The second photo was taken one week later in a stand of spruce trees just outside the reach of that fire-hose spray of crude oil. On the surface, nothing is amiss in that small forest, but a hand-dug trench at the bottom of the picture reveals a fierce, black stain of crude oil spreading beneath the ground. The jagged crude swath beneath the surface stands in sharp contrast to the muted brown, purple, green and white colors of early winter in Interior Alaska. Officials at the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation believe all the trees in the second picture will die..."




  • Anchorage Daily News-October 26, 2001
    Governor overstates spill response

     Compass
     By Richard A. Fineberg

    "More than 24 hours after the trans-Alaska oil pipeline was penetrated by a bullet Oct. 4, the wounded pipeline still fired a thick, black stream of oil into the nearby trees as Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. workers watched..."




  • Fairbanks News Miner-November 9, 2001
    Shutdown mishaps cause concern
    By ROSS COEN

    "Two days before a maintenance shutdown of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline scheduled for Sept. 22, a guest opinion on this page by Alyeska Senior Vice President Bill Howitt proclaimed that the shutdown was part of 'a well-structured and carefully thought out maintenance plan assuring the trans-Alaska pipeline continues to be one of the safest, most reliable transportation systems in the country.'..."