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Beirut: After Israeli Attacks Biggest Oil Catastrophe in Mediterranean Sea
by Open-Publishing - Saturday 29 July 20062 comments
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Beirut: After Israeli Attacks Biggest Oil Catastrophe in Mediterranean Sea
Spill of 10,000 tons of fuel oil into the Mediterranean Sea
from Indymedia Beirut - 27.07.2006 02:41
At least 10,000 tons of heavy fuel oil have been spilled into the Lebanese sea, causing an environmental catastrophe with severe effects on health, biodiversity and tourism, environmentalists and the Environment Ministry said Wednesday. 15,000 tons are expected to leak into the Mediterranean from another tank that is still burning. Two weeks ago, Israeli bombs targeted the Jiyye power station, located on the coast 30 kilometers south of Beirut. Part of the oil in storage tanks has been burning ever since and the other part is leaking into the Mediterranean.
Continue to read:
http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2006/07/4803.shtml
Pics from the coast around Beirut:
http://beirutupdate.blogspot.com/2006/07/pics-of-environmental-damage-oil-slick.html
Forum posts
30 July 2006, 01:22
Interesting, but, what is the point of the above article?
6 August 2006, 12:26
I think the point of the article is to let people know the true consequenses of this ’war’. Consequenses we don’t see reported in our ’open’ media. The fact that my parents had no idea the biggest oil spill in the Med ever is taking place scares me because they are not interested enough to search out the real truth of what is happening with the help of our country to a country that really has no defences. What’s the point of your question?