The Northwest Passage: crude oil’s next toilet?
Whether it is the Northwest Passage or, the Canadian Arctic Passage, an oil spill on the scale of the Gulf of Mexico disaster would permanently contaminate the top of the world.
OTTAWA, ONT.—The 1989 Exxon Valdez supertanker spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound was our benchmark for environmental contamination. That has now been eclipsed by the potential of BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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