National Public Radio: An oil drilling rig holding more than 150,000 gallons of diesel, lubricating oil, and hydraulic fluid has run aground near Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska, after it was being towed during a storm. The crew was evacuated before the rig was incapacitated. "The rig ran aground in a storm, with waves up to 35 feet and wind to 70 miles per hour," reports Jeff Brady, on NPR's Newscast. The Shell Oil rig is "about 250 miles south of Anchorage," Jeff says. Update at 6:13 p.m. ET. No Sign of a Leak....
URL: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/01/168404684/oil-drilling-rig-runs-aground-in-gulf-of-alaska?ft=1&f=1025
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