Emergency workers involved in cleaning up the Black Sea oil spill have found seven new slicks, a Russian official told state news agency TASS today, as authorities struggle to contain the effects of the nearly month-long disaster. About 2,400 metric tons of oil have spilled into the sea since Dec. 15, when two aging tankers were hit by a storm in the Kerch Strait. Clean-up efforts not enough President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that clean-up efforts so far were not enough to deal with the scale of the situation, which he called “one of the most serious environmental challenges we have faced in years”. Andriy Pavlyuchenko, an official of the Emergencies Ministry of annexed Crimea, said today that workers had detected seven more cases of pollution along the coast in four regions of Crimea, as well as on Tuzla Island, a narrow strip of land under the Crimean Bridge that connects southern Russia […]
Source: News Beast
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