France Oil Spill – March 17, 1978
The volume of this oil spill was more than six times greater than the Exxon Valdez spill. Lack of clear authority regarding corrective action resulted in almost all of its sixty-nine million gallons of oil being spilled. On March 17, 1978, a supertanker, the Amoco Cadiz, was stranded off the northwest coast of France when …