Exxon Valdez by Michael Burgan

Author:Michael Burgan [Burgan, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: nonfiction; Compass Point Books; Captured History Science; disaster; environment; oil spill; Alaska; Exxon Valdez; science; History / United States / 20th Century; People & Places / United States / General; 9780756557430; 9780756557515; 9780756557478; 9780756557553
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2017-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

THE CAPTAIN IN COURT

After the results of Joseph Hazelwood’s alcohol test, Exxon fired him, and the state charged him with four crimes, including operating a ship while drunk. If he had been found guilty of all charges, Hazelwood would have faced up to seven years in prison and fines of more than $60,000. His trial began in January 1990 and lasted for about eight weeks. In the end, the jury decided that he was not drunk at the time of the grounding, though it did find him guilty of a lesser charge. The verdict was announced two days before the first anniversary of the accident.

Hazelwood appealed the decision and lost, so he had to pay a fine and do 1,000 hours of unpaid work, known as community service. He left his home in New York and spent most of the time working at an Anchorage café that gives homeless people free food. His duties included cleaning stoves and waxing floors.

“I was the captain of a ship that ran aground and caused a horrendous amount of damage,” said Hazelwood, almost 20 years after the spill. “I’ve got to be responsible for that.”18 He also offered “an apology, a very heartfelt apology, to the people of Alaska for the damage caused by the grounding of a ship that I was in command of.”

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