When Mount Redoubt began erupting in Alaska last month, the nearby Drift River oil terminal suddenly emerged from the obscurity of a low-key industrial facility to the potential source of an environmental disaster on the scale of the Exxon Valdez. "The everyday, walking-around person scratches their head when they hear there's an oil terminal at the base of an active volcano," said Bob Shavelson of the environmental group Cook Inletkeeper.
