Sunday, 17. November 2002
Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 7:54:53 PM CET
Major slick threatens Spanish coast
Fears are growing that a stricken oil tanker off Spain's north western coast could break up spilling thousands of gallons of oil into the sea and causing an environmental catastrophe. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warns that if all 77,000 tonnes of the Prestige's cargo were to leak, the spill would be twice the size of the catastrophic Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska.
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