"There's no doubt in my mind that the long-term environmental consequences of the Prince William Sound oil spill will far exceed those of Chernobyl or Bhopal. It's probably fair to say that in our lifetime we will never see the Sound the way it was on Mar. 23, 1989." -Jay Hair, president (1987-95), National Wildlife FederationrnWrong. Gliding across Prince William Sound by kayak, you can't imagine that the 986-foot Exxon Valdez ever spewed a drop of crude oil, let alone 11 million gallons. Sea otters dive for oysters, doingrnbackflips in the sunshine. Orca whales blow plumes of spray into the air. Porpoises skip and plunge in the wake of fishing craft laden with the day's salmon catch. Bhopal it's not.
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