Pipeline spills crude into French nature reserve

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http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40330


Four thousand cubic meters (140,000 cu ft) of crude oil has spewed into a nature reserve on the edge of France's Camargue national park after an underground pipe burst, officials said on Friday.

"This is a real ecological disaster," junior environmental minister Chantal Jouanno told reporters after visiting the area in the far south of France.

The spill spread over 2 hectares (5 acres) of the Coussouls de Crau reserve near the town of Saint-Martin-de-Crau, which was created in 2001 and is home to thousands of birds.

The site lies at the entrance to the Camargue park, a vast expanse of plains and marshland, famous for its wild horses and bulls, that boards the Mediterranean Sea.

The fractured pipeline was operated by the Societe du Pipeline Sud-Europeen (SPSE), which supplies refineries and a petrochemical plant in France, Switzerland and Germany.
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how awful

[Javaman]

1. Hey! if it ain't about health care, no one wants to hear about it!

I know, it sucks, the world continues to burn while the right wing screams and whines.

We are killing the earth one oil spill, one mountain topped, one super-fund site, etc at a time.

We spew, spill and burn all there is and we wonder why the earth is dying.

The music started so long ago and we humans refuse to go to the dance.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. agreed. DU has become health care/birther/townhall central.

[underseasurveyor]

3. That is awful

Again /DEEPSIGH