How many of you remember the ? disaster.
No one? Perhaps you just a little bit too young.
Anyway, today we will disscuss this sad historical event and its impact on the world really.
In the late 1690s, and early 1970s the United States hope to decrease the contries dependence on forn oil by using oil from Alaska.
Experts believed that Alaska handle largest oil reserves ever found on the North America continent.
So, to reduce to emount of oil? ? the trans Alaskan pipeline was built in 1977.
The trans of Alaskan pipeline broke crude oil to the Alaskan cost and oil takers broad it south.
You know, evrionmentalists had always protest the pipeline and in March of 1989, disaster struck when the ? takers sank near the Alaskan cost.
Almost 11milion gallons of oil spill into Alaska fragile cost ?system.
That was the largest oil spill in U.S. history and was obviously, a source of great concern to out raged environmentalists.