Old icebreaker gets a six-month reprieveSeattle-based Polar Sea was headed to the scrap yard, but Alaska and Washington senators persuade U.S. Coast Guard to hold off Wesley Loy For Petroleum News
A trio of U.S. senators announced June 15 they had succeeded in persuading the U.S. Coast Guard to slow down its plan for scrapping one of the nation’s few icebreakers.
Disposal of the Polar Sea was set to begin right away, but is now postponed through 2012, the senators said.
The action was agreed....
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