OIL pipelines in southern Alaska could be ruptured by a massive earthquake in
previously unrecorded geological faults, an Alaskan geologist warned this week.
A quake here could trigger an environmental catastrophe worse than the oil spill
from the Exxon Valdez tanker in 1989, he says.
“There is the potential for a major disaster because of the oil pipelines and
stores in the area,” Peter Haeussler of the US Geological Survey in Anchorage
told Â鶹´«Ã½. His warning follows the release of secret
geological surveys carried out by oil company ARCO Alaska over the past 40
years. The company let Haeussler…
