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  • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1977 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Record oil spills and losses set (CPS) -Twelve oil tanker mishaps in U.S. waters have occurred in the 26 days between Dec. 15, 1976 and Jan. 10. Despite the recent flood of tanker accident accounts, records for oil tanker losses and the amounts of oil spilled into the ocean were set in the first nine months of 1976, according to industry figures. In those first nine months. 13 tankers were declared a total loss with a total deadweight capacity of 940,(XX) tons which, an oil industry Organization reports, exceeded "the 815,000 deadweight tons lost during the entire vear of 197.S. which had the all-time record." The organization, the ranker Advisory (enter. reported that a total of 198,(XX) tons of oil were spilled into the world's waters in the nine-month period, a quantity far exceeding that of the recent accidents. Of the 12 tanker mishaps reported to have OCCUred in U.S. waters since Dee. 15, the most notable is that of the Argo Merchant, a Liberian* registered supertanker which ran aground 2^ miles southeast of Nantucket Island where seas pounded it to pieces, releasing some 7.5 million gallons of crude oil near Georges Bank, a major East-coast commercial fishery. This was the largest single amount of oil ever spilled on U.S. waters. Ten of the 12 tankers were foreign, including eight Liberian and two Panamanian registered' ships. The other two were American tankers, one ot which spilled 2,100 gallons of oil into San Francisco Hay on Jan. 5. The I ibcrian and Panamanian ships were sailing under "Hags of convenience.'' which are designed for shipping and oil companies so that they may legally avoid high American taxes. Also, they may use cheaper foreign ships which are not required to meet comparatively strict U.S. shipping and construction standards and they may hire foreign Crewmen who will accept non-union pay scales. Liberia, which has no natural harbor, has become in the past 30 years the owner ol the largest tanker licet in the world. Its lax regulations and low taxes were engineered by a former U.S. Secretary of State who wished to benefit shipping interests and oil and steel producers. Americans wishing to register their ships under the Liberian flag need not travel across the ocean; a Liberian registration office is situated on Park Avenue in New York. Amerships, Inc., which operated the Argo Merchant as well as a number of other tankers involved in a great number of mishaps, is also located in downtown New York. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which comprises the U.S., Japan, and Western Europe, states that ships flying flags of convenience were lost four times as often as those under OECD flags in the decade before 1973. U.S. attempts at regulating the shoddy foreign vessels have been cautious owing to fear of learth (shoe 7 All Souls Crescent | Biltmore Village | Asheville, N.C. 2*8803 704-274-4151 Mon. thru Sat. 10-6 | Fri. 10-8:30 reprisals. Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman apparently wants to reach an international oil tanker safety pact at an upcoming Law.of the Sea conference. However. Coleman is leaving his post along with the rest of the Ford Administration, and Department of Transportation bureaucrats are unsure about the course his successor will plot. Meanwhile, Sen. Edward Kennedy has introduced a bill that would require all tankers to follow established, safe sealanes within U.S. waters. I he bill would establish control systems much like those at major airports, and would set construction standards, including double bottoms, for tankers that wish to enter U.S. ports. Environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and the Environmental Defense league, concerned with the ecological damage of oil spills, reali/e the problems involved with international shipping but have concentrated their efforts on strengthening and remodeling existing rines and regulations for oil tankers. The groups, with the assistance ol the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLSP), have been looking for ways to adjust the Ports and Waterways Safety Act. which is the current law the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) uses to set standards for shipping and harbor safety and to guide it in enforcing these regulations. l'lvin Greenberg of CLSP believes that the act is a "good law" but finds that it "doesn't clearly mandate Specific standards for the Coast Guard." According to Gene Coan of the Sierra Club. environmental groups would like to change the act to include: 1) stricter regulations requiring that the best available technology is used by all tankers (including double bottoms, a gas inerting system to avoid cargo tank explosions, and a ballast segregation system to prevent oil leakage in ramming and grounding accidents); 2) a regularly patrolled 200-mile pollution control /one off the I S coast; 3) radar guided approaches to harbors; 4) among other changes, standards for the up keep of old tankers still m service. Greenberg and Coan also believe that il. is so "entrenched and insulated in military, type bureaucracy that it can't follow the law." lhe I SCG is now an arm of the Department of [transportation, headed up bv i commandant who is responsible to the Secretary of Transportation. Greenberg and Coan feel that If the position of the commandant were changed to a civilian position, like an undersecretary, then the activities and regulations of the Coast Guard would be more accessible to important public scrutiny. The need for more stringent regulations over the oil tanker industry is apparent m light ol recent oil shipping history, lhe problem is quickly becoming a priority concern as the shortcomings of current tanker safety regulations become exposed in the Alaskan oil fleet. Already, the majority ot the tankers which will transport the Alaskan crude to California do not meet the stated safe-design construction goals promised by oil industry spokesmen in the early I'rans Alaska pipeline hearings. NAVAL AIR RESERVE VETERANS - ALL SERVICES You may have a skill we need. If interested in a weekend per month pay billet ($80 E-5 over Four) CONTACT: LCDR Andrew Baggs 293-5404 / 7475. Being A Professional Doesn't Pay The Light Bill. If one came to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as an assistant professor in 1971-72 at $12,130 and received the average salary increase each year, then in 197S-76 he fell $1579 short of the amount required to maintain the standard of living he had in 1971-72. Further, a non-academic state employee [SPA employee] starting at the same time and with the same salary and who received the normal step increases and the legislated pay increases made $2034 more than the assistant professor [hired in 1971-72] in 1975-76. Complaining won't correct the above inequity. But joining AFT will. The stronger we are—the more effective we can be—the more we can do for you. If interested contact one of the following Rita Byrne - Anthropology Karl Nicholas - English Leland Waters - Business Jim Horton - Biology Bill Anderson - History
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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