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[News] Oil spill in Lebanon causes environmental crisis

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Original story by Richard Black, BBC News


An oil slick caused by Israeli bombing of the Jiyyeh power station now covers 80km (50 miles) of coast.


Local environmental groups describe the slick as an "environmental disaster".
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"Environmental crisis" ? Strange. Lebanese businesses have been taking payments for decades to dispose of barge-loads of European garbage and toxic industrial wastes -- which they accomplish by simply dumping it in the Med off the Lebanon coast:

http://www.american.edu/ted/ice/lebwaste.htm#r1

The magnitude of this flood of pollution dwarfs that of the fuel oil spill described in the uncorroborated BBC report, and yet for some reason never seemed to make news headlines.
 
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Just in case everybody didn't know, oil spills reall aren't that bad for the ocean. Thanks for reminding us pkotik.
 
Indeed. Crude petroleum has been perfusing the oceans since long before the first humans rose up and said "Hey ! My feet stink !"

I've noted that in hours and hours of live TV broadcasts from locations on Lebanon beaches, I've yet to see anything but nice white sand. The beaches of Tyre look lovely behind the telejournalists.

The Lebanese government has been strangely silent, too, about an event which, if as described in the BBC piece, would have provided it with powerful leverage in the United Nations debates currently underway, and in other forums of the international community. It's not like a Middle Eastern government to forego advantage like that. What's up ?
 
indeed crude oil isn't a negative factor in the marine environment!?!

In my area we had this nice little spill in 2001, 2700 tonnes of crude oil.
Now 5 years since the area is still a desert with next to no life, compared to its former state.

It's not just the oil but also all the other agents it contains...
 
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