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Author Archives: William Major

Posted inEnergy, Environment

They Said It Couldn’t Happen

by William Major February 24, 2012February 24, 2012

Many of us reacted with indignation when eleven workers died and the Gulf of Mexico’s fragile shorelands and waters were defiled by the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010. Many of us also remember the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989, the environmental and economic effects of which are felt even today. […]

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