20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill
I’m in the Anchorage airport on my way home. But don’t tell anyone . . . I’m smuggling hazardous waste on the flight. The toxic waste is 80 pounds of rocks from the beaches in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The photo above tells the story quicker than I can with words. Let me just tell you that it wasn’t hard to find more than enough rocks covered with stinky crude oil. I could have sunk the boat. Gotta run for now, more later.
Good on Ya for keeping that old and vital role of "muck raker" alive... I trust you plan to do something constructive with this muck / goo... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker
Thanks Robert. The World Wildlife Fund supported this trip and are working hard to bring attention to the issue: http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/howwedoit/policy/oilspill.html
[...] couple weeks ago I posted a very brief note about a photo shoot I had just completed in Prince William Sound, Alaska documenting the crude oil [...]