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- Alaska; Trans Alaska Pipeline System; TAPS; Oil Pollution Act of 1990; OPA 90; Sullom Voe; Shetland Islands; Alyeska; marine pollution; environmental protection; Valdez oil terminal; Shetlands Oil Terminal Environmental Advisory Group; Sullom Voe Environmental Advisory Group; SVEAG; Sullom Voe; Alyeska (1)
- United States; Oil Pollution Act of 1990; OPA 90; oil pollution; oil spills (1)
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Alyeska, Sullom Voe And The Oil Pollution Act Of 1990: A Comparison Of Tanker Safety Regulation And Environmental Monitoring, Neil V. Kelly
Alyeska, Sullom Voe And The Oil Pollution Act Of 1990: A Comparison Of Tanker Safety Regulation And Environmental Monitoring, Neil V. Kelly
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The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 highlighted deficiencies in the Trans Alaska Pipeline System's (TAPS) marine operation on both regulatory and operational levels. The United States Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to promote the prevention of oil spills and to improve our ability to mitigate the effects of spills that occur. An oil terminal roughly analogous to the TAPS terminal at Valdez, Alaska, exists at Sullom Voe in the Shetland Islands, west of Norway and to the north of Scotland in the North Sea. The Sullom Voe terminal has had an environmental advisory group guiding policy …
The Oil Pollution Act Of 1990: A Solution Or A Problem?, Kevin M. Carey
The Oil Pollution Act Of 1990: A Solution Or A Problem?, Kevin M. Carey
Theses and Major Papers
The signing of the Oil Pollution Control Act of 1990, Public law 101-380, (OPA 90) on August 18, 1990 was a significant landmark in the struggle to control pollution by oil and the activities associated with the recovery, transport, and refinement of oil and associated products in the territorial waters of the United States, and was long overdue. The aftermath of the Exxon Valdez spill, which was the impetus that finally prodded Congress to pass the oil spill legislation that had been under consideration for years, has been filled with controversy over how the spill occurred, how the clean up …