...the Egan Library at 7 p.m. Coen's presentation is on the challenges faced in a test run of an ice-breaking crude oil tanker in the Northwest Passage. The talk should be especially timely with the recent controversy over oil companies poised...

...considerably."It's lost a huge volume of ice," he said.The glacier became a footnote to history in 1989 when the crude oil tanker Exxon Valdez changed course to avoid one of its icebergs and ran aground on Bligh Reef, spilling crude oil into Prince...

...head, said Ken Baxter, a Juneau troller and longliner who recently completed the course and plans to seek work on a crude oil tanker in Valdez for the fall and winter. "We can't afford it on our own," he said. Baxter has been fishing commercially...

...ANCHORAGE - An oil industry watchdog group and a federal agency are raising concerns about changes planned for the crude oil tanker port in Valdez. The Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council warns that the downsizing and modernization...

...intakes or were threatened by the waterway's notoriously destructive pan ice. In February, heavy sea ice forced the crude oil tanker Chesapeake Trader away from the dock in Nikiski. The ship's hull cracked, but only a little oil spilled. Carter...

...intakes or were threatened by the waterway's notoriously destructive pan ice. In February, heavy sea ice forced the crude oil tanker Chesapeake Trader away from the dock in Nikiski. The ship's hull cracked, but only a little oil spilled. Carter...

...regulatory no man's land with regard to spill response standards. Federal and state laws spelled out standards for crude oil tankers in Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet, but requirements for refined petroleum carriers, primarily tug and barge...