Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:19:26 -0800 (AKDT)
Subject: Re: Dead on August 16th


At 4:55 PM -0500 4/7/99, danceswithcarp wrote:
>What's the status of things there, anyways?


	I can take you to 6 different beaches in Prince William Sound where
you can lift up a rock and find liquid oil still smelling of hydrocarbons.
You can't see the oil on the surface anywhere, but it's working it's way
through the food chain, including ours.
	March 24 was the 10th anniversary of the spill. Exxon chose that
day to lobby congress for more time to build double-hulled tankers. Weird
bunch!
	That was probably the one with John Voigt in it. It was passably
accurate, a bit melodramatic, overplayed. The Dan Lawn character was
overdone (I worked for him during the spill) and the whole movie was far
less dramatic than the actual experience.

Michael A. Lewis
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