oil

On what we did this week we did some work and some more work. We also did homework, not that much though. It was a fun this week (some week). We had indoor recess (also fun (some fun)). I played on computers all 30 minutes (45 min.).

All I did this week at home this very week of all the weeks was sleep, eat, school, eat & sleep. Like all the other weeks this was the most fun of all, a substitute came into our class. He was okay, fine, defined & great. He was a nice guy.

Today was a great day. It was also kind of short today. I got my work done which is great. To end this short paragraph I will say today is over bye.

I didn't know what to write about so I looked through the categories and saw the topic oil. I thought that was a strange topic and might be kind of fun to wright about. But I don't know much about oil so now I'm stuck.

Oil. What a weird word. Who ever came up with all the words and their spelling. I mean, oil shouldn't be spelled O-I-L. It should be spelled O-Y-E-L. Then there is the word oil. Oil. Try to say oil 5 times fast. Oil, oil,oyoyoyoyoy. I can't say it, that's for sure. Oil.

Ever heard of a bacon clock? Well I have. Haven't you? Click this link - http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/MoreStories/New-alarm-clock.

Read this story about a kid that designed a clock without a alarm; instead he used the aroma of bacon.

My first pet is a dog named Bingo. I was about six when I got him, and I didn't name him!!! My dog is a male miniature schnauzer.

My dog ran away about twenty times. One time I thought he ran away on the last day before I went to my vacation, but he was in the house.

He is a nice dog, but he is not nice to kids. I taught my dog to sit and come. My dog is my favorite and my first pet. I had other pets ahead of him, but he is the best. I've had him for about nine years now; I wonder how much is that for dog years?

On March 24, 1989 the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilt 11 million gallons of crude oil into the Prince William Sound. I think Exxon should pay more for the oil spill because The spill was horrible for alaska and the people that lived and worked in the Prince William Sound. Before the spill Prince William sound was beautiful place.

Sam
Denali Elementary School

Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court,

On March 24, 1989, at 12:04 am the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef, and 11 million barrels of toxic crude oil went into the ocean. Before this drastic event, the animals were clean. The fishermen had good fish to sell. The birds would dive and eat the fish. Then everything turned, in late March, 1989.

19 years ago there was an oil spill in Prince William sound, near Valdez. The petroleum oil tanker Exxon Valdez had hit a rock and oil started to leak oil. (I think it must have been leaking pretty fast because it lost 10.8 million gallons out of 53,094,510 gallons of oil.) Then otters started to die because they got oil all over their fur and tried to lick it off, and ingested the oil. Fish were affected but not immediately, because fish live under water, and the oil was on top of the water.

Seals and birds covered in oil started to wash up on shore.

In a lot of these stories, I realized a lot of people are affected by lots of it. I think it is sad that people get loses of what they like. In one story a ship lost 53 million gallons of oil and tons of animals are also affected like when birds land in the oil they can not get out. I think it is sad that some of them do not make it. When people are affected, it is mostly when they can not get food because of the fish. I hope there is no more oil spills.

On March 24, 1989 the Exxon Valdez crashed into a reef and aboard on the ship was about 1,200,000 barrels of crude oil. Around 240,000 barrels spilled into the sea and the oil spread. The crew of the Exxon Valdez couldn't stop it. Then the oil spread over many miles. Soon people found out the oil poisoned the salmon, whales, sea otters, and fishes in the sea. Then sea otters tried to clean the oil off of their fur and the oil poisoned them, some died and some got other disorders. Eagles, foxes, bears, wolves, and deer got poisoned too.

The Exxon Valdez oil spill happened on March 24, 1989. The ship hit a reef and about 240,000 barrels of oil spilled out into Prince William Sound. It also was collected by the rocks. By the next day, the oil had spread from 6 square miles to more than 18 square miles. By March 28, the oil had already spread more than 40 miles from the original spill. This effected more than the seas on the coast of Alaska, but it also killed a lot of marine life. Seals who licked their fur after being in the water, died because it poisoned them.

The federal jury of Alaska asked Exxon to pay 5 Billion dollars to thousands of Alaskans who got their lives ruined by the Exon Valdez oil spill and they said no, It is too mush to pay for them. Even though they are still making the most money in business. I think they should pay because a lot of Alaskans got hurt, even the animals.

On Wednesday, February 27, 2008, The supreme court is going to settle this once and for all. They will see if the punishment is OK to do or not.

Every Alaskan life had been effected by this, said Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska.

A lot of the effects of the Exon Valdez oil spill are:

• The birds might die,
• polar bears might become extinct.
• Also swans, cranes,and geese search for food in the oily water.
• And its bad for all of the people because they might get sick from the food they eat.
• The oil spread over many square miles and killed lots of animals.
• Oil also kills nature, like trees and grass, and pollutes the water.

The Valdez was on its was to Long Beach, California. It was carrying 1,264,164 barrels of oil, slick and thick as molasses.