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Originally Posted by Fuzz
An incident with a gas tanker, while bad, wouldn't be nearly as devastating as an oil spill. And lets not pretend these don't happen, we recently had a ship clog up the Suez canal, and other crash into and destroy a stationary bridge.
Given the violence of winter storms, and the strength of tides in the area, a disabled oil tanker could easily turn into a devastating disaster quickly.
I'm not going to die on this hill, I'm just pointing out there are reasonable grounds to be worried about the possibilities. Since, you know, it's happened before with the Valdez north of there. And it's still a problem.
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We can't just let fear stop us though. If the concern is specifically oil spilling, then substantial measures can be put in place to mitigate the risk as much as possible. I am in favor of derisking using $ but not just blocking a project out of fear for a potential outcome.