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Oil Spills
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a state of emergency after an estimated 18,000 tonnes of diesel fuel poured out of a fuel tank and into a nearby river. The spill ” possibly the worst of its kind in the Arctic region ” is being attributed to melting permafrost, yet…
As feared, oil from a sunken Iranian tanker has reached the shores of over a dozen southern Japanese islands, Japanese Coast Guard officials have now confirmed to Reuters and AFP.
This past Saturday, a tanker transporting oil from Iran to South Korea collided with a freighter about 300km off the coast of Shanghai. The tanker, filled with 130 tonnes of highly volatile condensate crude, has been burning for the past three days, raising fears of an environmental catastrophe.
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