In a June 3 letter to administration officials, Ocean Conservancy VP Dennis Takahashi Kelso argues for a Natural Resources Damage Assessment that is transparent, peer-reviewed, focused on the long-term and holistic.
Articles by Denny Takahashi Kelso
Congressional Testimony of Dennis Takahashi-Kelso
On June 24, 2010, Ocean Conservancy VP Denny Kelso testified before the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources. These are his written comments.
Lessons Learned From The Valdez Disaster
Sometime after midnight on March 24, 1989, I was awakened by a phone call. Within hours I was climbing a rope ladder to the deck of the Exxon Valdez. The grounded tanker would drain 11 million gallons of crude into Alaska’s Prince William Sound. The oil would eventually reach parts of some 1,200 miles of coastline—enough to span California’s coast and Oregon’s, too. Twenty-one years later, oil remains in the beaches of Prince William Sound.
