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Oil Rig Aground in Alaska Is Towed From Shoreline
2013-01-07 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A week after it ran aground along a rocky shoreline in the Gulf of Alaska, a Shell Oil drilling rig was refloated and towed to safer water for inspection, officials said Monday. Sean Churchfield, operations manager for Shell Alaska and a member of the response team that includes representatives from Shell, the Coast Guard and Alaskas environmental agency, said the rig was refloated late Sunday night and arrived in Kiliuda Bay, a sheltered area on Kodiak Island about 300 miles southwest of Anchorage,...
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