It was announced that 11,900 barrels were spilled into the sea in the accident caused by the volcanic eruption in Peru. Previously, this number was reported as 6,000.
You know that environmental pollution; With the increasing consumption increase, industrialization, population growth, etc. an exponentially growing problem continues to be. Unfortunately, the efforts of non-governmental organizations and associations working to protect the environment are also sufficient to a certain extent. The biggest task for us is to start by protecting our own environment.
Air, water and soil pollution is one of our global environmental problems. Biodiversity is decreasing day by day, the ozone layer is being damaged, and the seas and oceans are getting polluted. A plastic bag thrown into nature 1000 years later completely dissolved and mixed with nature. The situation is not so bright for other discarded plastic products. Sometimes, environmental pollution can occur with undesirable accidents like the one in Peru recently.
In the accident on the coast of Peru, 11,900 barrels of oil were extracted from the sea
Thousands of kilometers off the coast of Peru volcanic eruption took place. At the time of the explosion, the oil tanker Mare Doricum was transported to a refinery in a port just off the coast of Peru. was pouring oil. The tsunami experienced by the violence of the explosion, the oil discharger overturning of the tanker caused.
The accidental oil spill caused by the explosion doubled caused it to come out. Immediately after the accident, which caused the oil spill, Spanish oil company Repsol’s four executives He was asked to be banned from leaving the country for 18 months.
Peruvian Environment Minister Ruben Ramirez made a statement after the accident. 6,000 barrels spilled reported, but the current number is 11,900 told. Repsol, on the other hand, acknowledged that the figure was higher than before, but did not confirm the number given by the minister.
An ecological disaster!
Prosecutors investigating the accident found that the oil slick was about to be mixed with the refinery’s ocean currents. drifted 140 kilometers explained. oil spill, multiple to the death of fish and seabird caused. Hundreds of local fishermen were injured by the spill. He was unable to use his boats.
Peruvian government demands $34.5 million in compensation from the company
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Four executives of Repsol company ban from leaving the country by the court accepted. Repsol company, which is on trial for the crime of ‘environmental pollution at the expense of the state’, With a fine of $34.5 million face to face. Against the oil company in the country protests were held.