Court Rewards Exxon for Valdez Oil Spill
Twenty years after Exxon Valdez slimed over one thousand miles of Alaskan beaches, the company has yet to pay
Chugach Natives
Nanwalek Rocks Natives at Ground Zero of the Exxon Valdez oil spill
At the far side of Alaska’s Kenai Fjord glacier, a heavily armed rock-and-roll band held lock-down control of the politics and treasury of Nanwalek, a Chugach village, until four years ago.
Native Inc Oils Wheels in Alaska
For The Observer/Guardian UK
Holy week is especially solemn in Chenega. On Good Friday 1964, a tidal wave swept over the Chugach native village on Chenega Island in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. Every home was washed out to sea. One-third of the residents drowned.
Don't Buy Exxon's Fable Of The Drunken Captain
For The Guardian UK
Thirty years ago this month, Alaskan natives sold Exxon and its partners an astronomically valuable patch of land — the oil terminal at Valdez for a single dollar.
The Chugach Natives of the Prince William Sound refused cash. Rather, in 1969, they asked only that the oil companies promise to protect their fishing and seal hunting grounds from oil.
