I found this very small article in the “60 Seconds” section of the New Scientist. Seems like there is some kind of a media coverup going on as it doesn’t seem to have been reported elsewhere. Or maybe nobody cares about Alaska:
Oil clean-up on ice
Extreme cold has hampered efforts to clean up the oil spill on Alaska’s northern coast – the largest ever recorded. By Tuesday, 230,000 litres of crude oil had been recovered after the ruptured pipeline was discovered two weeks ago at a site operated by BP Exploration (Alaska). Around 950,000 litres of oil were spilt.
If anyone has any more information about this, please leave me a comment…