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May 2002 Observer Newsletter Chenega Bay - Cordova - Homer - Kenai Peninsula Borough - Kodiak - Kodiak Island Borough - Kodiak Village Mayors - Seldovia - Seward - Tatitlek - Valdez - Whittier The Observer VVOLUMEOLUME 11, 12, N NO.O .3/S 2/MEPTEMBERAY 2002 AK Chamber of Commerce - AK Wilderness Recreation & Tourism Assoc. - Chugach Alaska Corp. - Cordova District Fishermen United - OSREC - PWS Aquaculture Corp. Study: Previous research underestimated toxicity of INSIDE North Slope oil in water by ignoring effects of sunlight Volunteer profile: OSPRC’s By Lisa Ka’aihue Karl Pulliam calls b-ball, p. 2 Council staff New research sponsored by the Observer gets color, p. 2 citizens’ council calls into question years of oil toxicity testing because Staff changes in council the older studies failed to account p. 2 offices, for the effects of sunlight present in the natural environment. Devens: Shippers do The researchers concluded right thing on downstream that exposure to the ultraviolet response, p. 3 radiation in sunlight significantly Alyeska Viewpoint: Ballast increases the toxicity of oil to water system’s 25 years of marine organisms, regardless of successful operation, p. 4 whether the oil has been treated with chemical dispersants. This apparatus was used to expose herring eggs to North Slope crude oil in the council-sponsored phototoxicity study. Photo courtesy of Dr. Mace Barron. New council president seeks As a result, the researchers businesslike operation, p. 4 recommend that photoenhanced exposure to ultraviolet light is so did not trigger photoenhanced toxicity should be considered in called photoenhanced toxicity, and toxicity in the oil being tested. New commander for Alaska determining the risks and injuries a chemical that exhibits it is called The latest research was con- Coast Guard, p. 4 of spilled oil, and in the selection phototoxic. Previous studies of oil ducted by toxicologist Dr. Mace of oil spill responses. toxicity were conducted under flu- Barron of P.E.A.K. Research in Community Corner: Visit to The phenomenon of a chemi- orescent lighting, which contains Kodiak ComFish, p. 8 cal becoming more toxic under little or no ultraviolet light and See p. 5, Phototoxicity Alyeska to cut 300 jobs, will largely spare SERVS and terminal maintenance budget Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. Alyeska said the cuts. owner companies, the North Slope last month announced a reorgani- about 50 staff posi- Alyeska said the oil producers. zation that will see layoffs of 300 tions would be cut changes would elimi- The changes will see the relo- people and the transfers of others in Valdez, 60 from nate duplication of cation of at least one face famil- to new work sites. Fairbanks and 40 from functions between its iar to the citizens’ council: Greg The shake-up affects all aspects Anchorage. In addi- three offices and cen- Jones, now head of Alyeska’s of Alyeska’s operations, from the tion, Alyeska said, its tralize operations. That, Valdez operations, will move to North Slope to Prince William contractor workforce according to Alyeska Fairbanks to become Senior Vice Sound to the corporate headquar- would be cut by about President and CEO President of Operations. In that ters in Anchorage. But company 150 positions, and an David Wight, should position, he will be in charge of officials told the citizens’ council unspecified number both save money and operations and maintenance for the that the Ship Escort/Response of workers would be improve operations. pipeline, as well as SERVS and the Vessel System in Valdez would be transferred to Anchor- David Wight “The new organiza- Valdez tanker terminal. virtually unaffected, as would be age and Fairbanks. tion is better structured The council does not involve the budget for maintenance at the “The impact to the communi- to support operations at the Valdez itself in Alyeska’s business deci- tanker terminal there. ties won’t be known until the staff Marine Terminal and along the sions, said Executive Director John However, the effects on staffing selection process is complete and pipeline,” Wight said in the state- Devens, but is concerned that the and operations at the terminal itself the number of positions to be trans- ment. shake-up not undermine safety. were still unclear at Observer press ferred is determined,” Alyeska said Alyeska runs the pipeline, time. in a prepared statement announcing tanker terminal and SERVS for its See page 3, REORGANIZE BAT bill overturns ruling in Lakosh case Gov. Tony Knowles in mid- NON PROFIT ORG. April signed into law a bill revers- U.S. POSTAGE PAID ANCHORAGE, AK ing a state Supreme Court ruling PERMIT NO. 836 on Best Available Technology regulations. As a result, the state Depart- ment of Environmental Con- servation can continue to hold that a company is using the best available technology if it can show on paper that it can clean up a 300,000-barrel oil spill in 72 hours. See p. 5, BAT Gov. Knowles Volume 12, No. 2 May 2002 May 2002 Volume 12, No. 2 Volunteer Profile Seldovia volunteer juggles oil-spill work with rural basketball broadcasting Karl Pulliam still remembers to local radio stations or – on a the moment 13 years ago when he couple of occasions – just to audi- and villagers from Nanwalek won ences gathered at the local high a “small victory” over the Exxon school. Valdez oil spill. He did 87 games this academic The spot was Dogfish Lagoon, year, he said, and got to know located in a pretty bay on the dozens of young athletes and their southwest tip of the Kenai Pen- coaches. insula, a few miles south of Nan- As a result, he says, people walek. The lagoon is a prized all over rural Alaska consider him subsistence and camping area almost a neighbor. Recently he for people from the area, valued was invited to an awards banquet for, among other things, the two in Unalaska. One thing he heard salmon streams that feed into it. from the Unalaskans: “Everybody By that day in late April 1989, always wonders when you lived oil from the Valdez had spread out here in Unalaska, because you hundreds of miles from Bligh Reef act like you know everybody.” and was entering Cook Inlet. Pul- Pulliam is originally from liam was a supervisor for workers VOLUNTEER – Above, Karl Oregon, where he grew up in a from Port Graham and Nanwalek, Pulliam (in white shirt) chats Columbia River fishing family. He serving mostly as liaison between with Alyeska’s Joe Kuchin at a holds a degree in general science, citizens’ council board meet- the two villages and Exxon. ing. Right, Karl participates and fished commercially around Working with their skiffs, the in SERVS fishing vessel Alaska for about 10 years before village men used local logs to training in Kachemak Bay settling in Seldovia in the mid- create a homemade form of protec- in April 2002. Shown with 1980s. He is married to the former tive boom. Then they quit for the him aboard the Mainstay Nancy Meganack of Port Graham. is Martha Million of Jakalof night. Ferry Service. Photos by Stan They have two children. Theresa “The very next morning,” Jones and Steve Lewis, citizens’ is the oldest, and recently presented Pulliam said, “the last of the oil council. the Pulliams with a third grandson. fingers snuck around the bottom of Charles is 16, and a basketball the Kenai Peninsula and came into player. In one contest this season, the lagoon on the tide. It lapped up ter the program under which a fleet involved for several years with he was chosen player of the game, on the boom, but it didn’t go over. of fishing vessels would be called the Cook Inlet Regional Citi- leading to an on-the-air interview It was a big deal to have stopped out in case of an oil spill. Money zens’ Advisory Council, first as a of athlete Charles Pulliam by it, one of those small victories, and from the contract had helped SOS director, then as a member of the announcer Karl Pulliam. there weren’t many.” maintain the office it used not only group’s Environmental Monitoring “I thought, ‘Well, this is kind of For Pulliam, as for many for the fishing vessel program, Committee. neat, except I don’t get to hear it,” Alaskans, the Valdez disaster was but also for its activities as a spill “I enjoyed it, but there was too Karl Pulliam said. a turning point. The former com- responder. much science,” Pulliam said. “It For the foreseeable future, Pul- mercial fisherman is still involved Pulliam says the organization was not the nuts and bolts of how liam plans to continue the business today in oil-spill work as project is surviving. It has cut expenses, do you stop a spill from damaging of his life as usual: calling bas- manager for the Seldovia Response partly by putting staff on a part- things. That’s what I wanted, so ketball games, enjoying the small- Team. time schedule. It will seek income OSPRC was a natural for me.” town pleasures of Seldovia, and The group – still known as from other activities, such as train- Pulliam has recently found staying active in oil-spill response. SOS because of its original name, ing. And when the fishing vessel himself mildly famous in rural “After working with OSPRC, Seldovia Oil Spill Response Team contract comes up again in a little Alaska because of his latest career: I’ve come to have a better under- – was recently called out to place under three years, SOS will likely broadcasting high school basket- standing of the Prince William containment boom when a fishing bid in an effort to get it back, he ball games on radio.
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