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    This document is a slide presentation for Girl Scouts on oil spills and cleanup efforts. It provides photos and descriptions of how oil is transported from oil fields, including a photo of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989. The presentation describes some of the challenges of cleaning up large oil spills, such as washing oil off beaches and collecting it with booms. It notes that smaller chronic spills from various sources also harm the environment. Finally, it encourages prevention efforts like using less oil and properly disposing of waste.

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    This document is a slide presentation for Girl Scouts on oil spills and cleanup efforts. It provides photos and descriptions of how oil is transported from oil fields, including a photo of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989. The presentation describes some of the challenges of cleaning up large oil spills, such as washing oil off beaches and collecting it with booms. It notes that smaller chronic spills from various sources also harm the environment. Finally, it encourages prevention efforts like using less oil and properly disposing of waste.

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    This document is a slide presentation for Girl Scouts on oil spills and cleanup efforts. It provides photos and descriptions of how oil is transported from oil fields, including a photo of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989. The presentation describes some of the challenges of cleaning up large oil spills, such as washing oil off beaches and collecting it with booms. It notes that smaller chronic spills from various sources also harm the environment. Finally, it encourages prevention efforts like using less oil and properly disposing of waste.

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    Clean Up OIL SPILLS

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    This document is a slide presentation for Girl Scouts on oil spills and cleanup efforts. It provides photos and descriptions of how oil is transported from oil fields, including a photo of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989. The presentation describes some of the challenges of cleaning up large oil spills, such as washing oil off beaches and collecting it with booms. It notes that smaller chronic spills from various sources also harm the environment. Finally, it encourages prevention efforts like using less oil and properly disposing of waste.

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    Cleaning up

    OIL SPILLS
    in our environment
    Prepared for Troop 98 Girl Scouts
    In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
    ENGINEERS AT WORK
    Junior Girl Scout Patch
    Slide show on oil spills and info
    for presenter of “Oil Up!”
    activity
    Check out the “notes” pages for these slides.Your text and other
    useful stuff is there.

    Have fun!

    Kind regards,
    Jean, AIChE member and Girl Scout mom
    How does oil get from the oil fields to us?
    Supertanker ship loading Alaskan
    crude oil at Port Valdez

    Photo from www.pbs.org/harriman/ explog/album.html


    Exxon Valdez Tanker
    aground in Alaska
    1989

    Photo at http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/photos/exxon/03.html
    Photo courtesy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.
    Photo courtesy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.
    Photo courtesy of the
    Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
    Trustee Council.
    Photo courtesy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.
    Photo courtesy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.
    Workers hose oil off
    the beach with hot
    water from fire hoses

    The oil is retained


    inside “booms” to be
    collected by a
    skimmer boat

    Photos courtesy of the Exxon Valdez


    Oil Spill Trustee Council.
    Even after washing, oil remains under the surface
    Photos courtesy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.
    Sometimes “dispersants”
    made of detergent are
    applied to oil slicks at
    sea to break up the oil so
    that ocean bacteria can
    break it down naturally

    Images from NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.


    The second worst
    oil spill in the
    world… an offshore
    rig in the Gulf of
    Mexico

    The worst oil spill in the


    world… an oil well in
    Kuwait uncapped during
    the 1991 Gulf war
    http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/photos/ships/08.html
    http://www.ipm.jp/ipmj/gallery39/guest/ja02e.html
    Big spills and little spills
    • Big accidents cause serious damage near the spill
    site - but other sources spill much more oil!
    • Little oil releases cause continuing environmental
    harm due to
    – Small spills from
    ships and motorboats
    – Cleaning ship tanks
    – Runoff from streets
    – Industrial pollution
    – Careless disposal of
    used motor oil
    – Smoke and exhaust
    – Natural oil seeps http://www.appea.com.au/edusite/html/pt/oceans.html
    Oil slick due to natural oil seep in Santa Barbara, CA www.venocoinc.com/ safety_seeps.html
    To prevent oiling Earth’s waters
    Use less oil! Walk, bike, or
    take public transportation

    Keep vehicles and furnaces


    tuned up and leak-free

    Recycle used motor oil & plastics


    Let’s

    CLEAN
    IT UP!

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