Some 6,000 barrels poured into the sea as an oil tanker unloaded a week ago at the La Pampilla refinery located some 30 kilometers north of Lima.
The government declared an "environmental emergency" for 90 days yesterday in the "damaged coastal marine area" affected by the spill, which is drifting north. AFP observed enormous oil stains on the ocean surface and dead birds floating in the water on a tour of Ancon Bay aboard the "Rey de Petita" boat, which before the spill took tourists for rides.
Baby fish "are already dead; the young, most of them eat on the seashore, and the seashore is full of oil," he said. "Nothing is selling at all... the fish more than anything comes out with the smell of oil, and people don't buy it, they don't eat it because they are afraid of getting poisoned by it, by the oil spill," said Giovana Rugel, 52, who sells fish at the entrance to the Ancon pier.
The emergency crews in white biosafety suits and latex gloves use shovels to remove the oily sand, which is then trucked to toxic waste dumps.
what a waste of crude oil smh
Alternative to oil Lithium can cause pollution also.....
Caused by freak waves (tsunami) Natures fault.
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