capability provides yet another tool for FOSC to use in mounting the best response possible.
Tranditional recovery and removal remains the response methodology of choice. Notwithstanding this, there is a growing awareness among responders, stakeholders, trustees and involved agencies that utilization of other methods (I.E. chemicals and in-situ burning) may be necessary and, in fact, preferable to prevent large quantities of product from coming ashore into inter-tidal regions.
In summary, we have found that our post EXXON VALDEZ approach to oil pollution response is a system wherein we, as a community partnership, plan together, exercise together, and respond together. Our successes are victories we share. Our failures are lessons we learn from together. An oil spill response is no longer automatically seen as a divisive event but a challenge we face together.
