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...valves by pressurizing a section of pipe that crosses beneath a road. The valves held up but the pipe failed, said Tom DeRuyter of the DEC's Spill Prevention and Response Division. "It obviously ruptured. We know that part. Why it ruptured...
...leaking crude onto the tundra at Cape Simpson. An estimated 30 to 50 gallons had spilled from a worn wellhead, said Tom DeRuyter, an environmental specialist with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. The well is located in the...
...spilled mixture covered a patch of tundra about 50 by 150 feet near a BP drilling site, 15 miles west of Deadhorse. Tom DeRuyter, with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said the mixture probably will kill the tundra but it's...
...one was hurt and the contamination should be limited to the gravel on top of the containment area?s liner, said Tom DeRuyter, on-scene spill coordinator for the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Oil companies operating on Alaska...
...to a commission assistant when he forwarded the talking points. Norman wrote, "For incident investigation file." Tom DeRuyter, a DEC employee who took part in the investigation, said it was clear to him that the agencies and the companies were...
...of the oil and water congealed in a large pile under the pipe. "There is a lot of material on the ground," said Tom DeRuyter, the on-scene spill coordinator for the Alaska Department of Conservation. The pipeline normally carried 75 percent...
...Processing Center for separation. It had been shut down by ice plugs. The department's on-scene coordinator, Tom DeRuyter, said crews hauled away the oily snow and tundra. The next step is restoration. BP will backfill the site and then...
...have the leak contained," she said. In the meantime, North Slope production has been cut to 5 percent of normal. Tom DeRuyter, the on-scene coordinator for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, said four responders were working...
...delivery. Vacuum trucks over the weekend sucked up between 378 and 420 gallons of oil from the pump station basement. Tom DeRuyter, the on-scene coordinator for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, said Monday there was still a...
...reached the bridge over the Tanana but did not get to a drain hole, and no fuel spilled into the open water, said Tom DeRuyter, a DEC environmental program specialist in Fairbanks. Most of the fuel was trapped by an access road belonging to...