Even so long afterward, the impacts of the oil spill linger ... and we have agencies that oversee the operations of the ...

The solution? A pipeline — a stationary, 800-mile-long tube dedicated to delivering oil to a shipping terminal in the year-round port of Valdez. Pipeline-like transports are not new.

It is anchored near the Ras Isa oil terminal, which is controlled by ... four times the amount of oil spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, in Prince William Sound, Alaska.