Alaskan Pipeline Spill

Adding misery to misery, there is another oil spill. This one occurred in Alaska with over 100,000 barrels of oil spilling. Hard to imagine that quantity of oil not being an environmental mess however they are saying the spill was contained to within a pump station. I wonder what that's like having over 100,000 barrels of oil floating around in your pump station.

Anchorage Daily News: Alyeska oil spill may close pipeline until Friday

The 800-mile pipeline between the North Slope oil fields and the Valdez tanker port is shut down due to a spill Tuesday of several thousand barrels of oil at Pump Station 9 near Delta Junction. A spill of that size -- totaling over 100,000 gallons -- is one of the largest ever for the 33-year-old pipeline.

Although the spill was contained within the pump station site...