Sixteen years after the Exxon Valdez spills millions of gallons of crude into Alaskan waters, a Seattle reporter gets a tip from a whistleblower. Despite reforms and safety regulations put in place since the spill, was another major accident waiting to happen?
In the fall of 2004, a spill of hundreds of gallons of thick crude oil in Puget Sound led a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to look into the safety of oil tankers in the Pacific Northwest. Aided by an initially reluctant whistleblower, journalist Eric Nalder made some very unsettling discoveries – and revealed how oil tankers are not as safe as they might seem.
Follow an investigative voyage: Big oil. Big tankers. Big trouble.
And watch the full episode when it premieres online, Wednesday, August 29, at 12 noon ET. (Or check your local listings for broadcast dates on PBS nationwide, beginning Friday, August 31.)
