“Once the oil is in the water, you have lost most of the battle — you can’t recover it, ” said Rick Steiner, a University of Alaska professor and an oil spill consultant.

一旦石油到了水里，你就已经输了一大半。

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Despite this, according to a critique of the study written by Rick Steiner, a conservation specialist at the University of Alaska, it includes no contingency plan for oil spills.

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Nearby, Rick Steiner said he is faced with having to shovel up to 10 feet of snow away from the sides of his three-bedroom home that he amassed from shoveling his roof all winter.

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