267,000 Gallons
The headline in the NY Times this morning said “Largest Oil Spill in Alaska went undetected for days” - The largest oil spill to occur on the tundra of Alaska’s North Slope has deposited up to 267,000 gallons of thick crude oil over two acres in the sprawling Prudhoe Bay production facilities, forcing cleanup crews to work in temperatures far below zero to vacuum and dig up the thick mixture of snow and oil.
That’s the first sentence of the article, and the next to last one is in part, “…said the leak was “smaller than our system would detect,…”. Ouch, that can’t be good for the environment.