Secrets of the Alyeska ER

The phones sure were busy at the Alyeska Emergency Response Headquarters over at Bragaw on March 24^th, 1989. When Alyeska’s George M. Nelson was told about the Joe Hazelwood “shipwreck”, and in that day starting at the wee-hours of what was supposed to be a “Good Friday” and lasting for 4-days, the ER found over 2651 pages of transcripts. Critical “legal” communications between Alyeska and the outside world that was attacking the company and attacking the workers at McDonalds! For real, we were told to wear nothing that labeled us as APSC men or women. You couldn’t even give an Alyeska coat away, not even to a homeless person. So people were hiding out. It is rather amusing, to read “All About It” how…they were prepared for a little oil:

MR. ARCO - Harold C. HEINZE: Well, if you can convoy tankers through minefields, you can -- you can get them through a little oil.
MR. ALYESKA - George M. NELSON: Yeah. You can get then through a little oil, yeah.

Within two days, the “head cheese” of ARCO-Alaska and Alyeska’s very own George Nelson of “Fuck Bucks” claim, rehearsing how that 10-million gallons of “toxicity” unleashed in Prince William Sound, “a little oil” which goes a long way to cover 1300-miles of once pristine shoreline. The reason the industry gets beat up!

But so reveling this phone worship testimony, and the most important segment of the transcripts that which tells the drama of the mutiny on Bligh Reef, the following gets the honors in the category of Oil Spill Priority:

06:33:25 CONVERSATION BEGINS

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE: Alyeska Cafe  

ALISON; Yeah. is Joyce there?

UNIDENTIFIED VOICE: Yeah. Just a minute. It's for you, Joyce.

JOYCE: Hello.

ALISON: Hi, it’s breakfast time again.

JOYCE; Oh, is it?

ALISON: Yeah, its Alison. First of all, do you have any -- will you have oatmeal?

.JOYCE: Yeah, we'll have oatmeal.

ALISON: You will have it today?

JOYCE: No, we have it every morning, oatmeal.

ALISON: Oh, every morning now.

JOYCE:  oatmeal bars.

ALISON; Okay. So when I go there I'll just get some for him, okay. And some fruit- -- you have bowls of fruit?
JOYCE; Yeah,

ALISON; Okay.

JOYCE: It's always out there too.

ALISON: Okay. So, get that from him, and then I want an omelet just like yesterday, with everything.

JOYCE: On, another omelet with everything.

ALISON: Right. Yeah.

JOYCE: You caught me with a cookie in my mouth already, Alison.

ALISON: OK, you have a cookie already this early. That sounds good. That really sounds good.

JOYCE: I need energy.

ALISON: First of all, do you have Egg Beaters, or      

JOYCE: Yeah, we have Egg Beaters. I took it out. I hope it's -- Hey, Pat       

PAT; Egg beaters?

JOYCE: Yeah, is it -- see if it its ready, the Egg Beaters. One omelet with everything, and two bacon, right?

ALISON: Oh, okay. Oh, if you have the Egg Beaters, okay. I want one regular -- I want regular      

JOYCE: okay. Its ready; Egg Beater.

ALISON: okay, one omelet with Egg Beaters with everything, and then you wanted the ham, right, inside the omelet, yeah?. And then the omelet with regular eggs. You know, one omelet with everything.

JOYCE: Okay. one regular,     

ALISON: Right. And one         

JOYCE: Okay.

ALISON: And then I want two pieces of bacon.

JOYCE: With two pieces -- the other one doesn't want two pieces of bacon too?

ALISON: No.

JOYCE: with the Egg Beater?

ALISON; No, he doesn't want any bacon, but he wants some Wheat toast.

JOYCE: With whole wheat toast.

ALISON: Right. And, than do you have skim milk?

JOYCE: the green box, I think, huh?

ALISON: Yeah, yeah, that's    

JOYCE: Yeah, Okay,

ALISON: Okay. Then he wants -- he wants skim mink. Okay.

JOYCE: So, that just -- they have two omelets and one with two pieces of bacon and the other one without, with bread, right? JOYCE: Okay. Okay. Let me read them to you

ALISON: Yeah, okay.

JOYCE: You want one omelet, right, from the -- with the Egg Beater          

ALION: Right.

JOYCE: with everything on it?

ALISON: Right.

JOYCE: And, you want that with two pieces of bacon?

ALISON: No no. With the egg Beater put the whole wheat toast.

JOYCE: Egg Beater with the whole wheat toast?

ALISON: Right.

JOYCE: Okay. With whole wheat toast.

ALISON: Toast, okay.

JOYCE: Okay, And than the regular omelet, you want two pieces of bacon'?
ALISON: Right.
JOYCE: Okay.
ALISON: Okay.

JOYCE: And than you want one skim milk, .....

ALISON: Right.

JOYCE: and then you need one large- -- one large   

ALISON: Well, no, he's going to -- instead of the oatmeal, what were going to do is just -- he'll just have that omelet.

JOYCE: What about -- you don't want any fruit?

ALISON: No,

JOYCE: No fruit
ALISON: Right.

JOYCE: Okay.

ALISON: And, I'll come down at 6:30 and get it.

JOYCE: About 6:30 Okay. Well, great.

ALISON: Thank you. Bye, bye,

JOYCE: Bye, bye,

06:55:14 CONVERSATION ENDS  

23-minutes to order Breakfast!

IMAGINE if there were a real “Oil Spill” and not just a DRILL!