Oil Spill adds Eco Crisis to Lebanon's Agony

[katty]

Oil spill adds ecological crisis to Lebanon's agony
27 Jul 2006 17:07:14 GMT
Source: Reuters

cont'd: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27727475.htm

Previous | Next A man pours sludge skimmed from the sea into a plastic container in Beirut July 27, 2006. Along Lebanon's sandy beaches and rocky headlands runs a belt of black sludge, 10,000 to 30,000 tonnes of oil that spilled into the Mediterranean after Israel bombed a power plant.
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Lebanon crisis


By Lin Noueihed

BEIRUT, July 27 (Reuters) - Along Lebanon's sandy beaches and rocky headlands runs a belt of black sludge, 10,000 to 30,000 tonnes of oil that spilled into the Mediterranean Sea after Israel bombed a power plant.

Lebanon's Environment Ministry says the oil flooded into the sea when Israeli jets hit storage tanks at the Jiyyeh plant south of Beirut on July 13 and 15, creating an ecological crisis that Lebanon's government has neither the money nor the expertise to deal with.

"We have never seen a spill like this in the history of Lebanon. It is a major catastrophe," Environment Minister Yacoub al-Sarraf told Reuters.

[partylessinOhio]

1. This is outrageous! Anyone who would do such a deliberate act is just

pure evil. There is no reason under any God to create such an ecological crisis and loss of life; human, plant or animal.

We are witnessing complete insanity.

[rzemanfl]

2. How many gallons in a tonne? Anybody know? n/t

[MercutioATC]

3. Figure about 250 gallons per tonne...

That would make the spill 2.5M-7.5M gallons.

[rzemanfl]

4. Thanks. n/t