P.M. BRIEFING : Exxon Cleanup Plan Revealed
Exxon Corp. would hire 4,000 people to complete the cleanup of oily shorelines in Prince William Sound by Sept. 15, when stormy weather usually sets in, under a confidential plan obtained today by United Press International.
The ambitious plan filed by the company calls for 4,000 cleanup workers to be in place by June 11. They would have to work at the rate of more than two miles a day to finish the cleanup of North America’s worst oil spill on time.
Exxon’s 19-page proposal, labeled the “Exxon Shoreline Cleanup Execution Plan,” is full of charts, lists, graphs and diagrams, but it contains only limited details about attacking oily beaches.
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