Looking at the Exxon Valdez spill: Just how dangerous is the oil clean-up?
Gulf Oil Spill-Alaska
Credit: AP
This Friday, May 30, 2010, image shows boats sitting along side the road near the city harbor in Cordova, Alaska. Communities along the Gulf Coast wondering about what kind of legacy the monstrous oil slick will leave can look no further than the towns along the Alaska coastline that were ravaged by the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. Crude oil from the tanker still lingers on some beaches a full 21 years later. Some marine species never recovered. Families and bank accounts were shattered. Alcoholism, suicide and domestic violence rates all rose in hard-hit towns. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
