Lebanon oil spill photos. Now ruining the Syrian coast as well.

[oblivious]

The Mediterranean current basically flows in a counterclockwise direction, so the slick is heading north to Syrian beaches. Israel's beaches should be safe.


Oil Spill at the Lebanese Coast
In the course of the conflict in the Middle East, the oil-fuelled power plant of Jieh, located directly on the coastline approximately 30 km south of Beirut was hit by bombs on July 13 and 15, 2006. Part of the storage tanks caught fire and were burning for several days. A large part of the fuel was spilled into the Mediterranean Sea as a result of the blast. The Lebanese ministry of environment estimated that approximately 30,000 tons of heavy fuel oil were emmitted into the sea.
http://www.zki.dlr.de/applications/2006/lebanon/lebanon_2006_en.html

August 1

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=484&ArticleID=5320&l=en

August 8




http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2006/2006-08-08-01.asp



Lebanon oil spill cleanup may take a year: Greenpeace
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/mideastconflictlebanonenvironmentpollutionoil











http://www.cleanupoil.com/gallery.htm

Lebanon oil slick 'worst environmental disaster' in Med
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060729/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictlebanonenvironment_060729120853;_ylt=Ar4385rwaVoeBLXioVNlr2sUvioA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04

Lebanon Oil Spill Makes Animals Casualties of War
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/58635302.html



http://my.opera.com/Mathilda/albums/show.dml?id=110752

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12011945@N00/sets/72157594217106474/



http://upge.wn.com/?t=worldphotos/viewphoto.txt&action=display&article=47320639





Greenpeace video showing the sunken oil suffocating the seabed. (scroll down close to the bottom of the page.)
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/recent-oil-spills#lebanon

[FogerRox]

1. Ah gee, you had to show pix of this horrible event

Whaaaaa

Whaaaaa

Ok.... now I am more pissed off

KNR

[MADem]

2. That is gonna be a tough, long row to hoe-30,000 tons of heavy fuel oil

It's that black, heavy stuff. It's possible to sop up some of it, but not all. A lot will sink to the bottom, sit there, get rolled around, and for years, is spit back up onto the beach in the form of tar balls that are continuous long-term reminders.

Had it been light oil, it would burn off/evaporate without the same effect.

Those pics remind me of the mess off Spain a few years back.

[IntiRaymi]

7. I wonder if Israel will pay for the clean up

Not likely.
The parties responsible for this ought to be dragged to the ICC.

[magellan]

3. Democracy Now covered this a couple of weeks ago

It's appalling. The Lebanese couldn't get to the plant to shut off the flow for quite some time -- I think the guy said 13 days, but I could be wrong -- because of the ongoing Israeli airstrikes.

Israel should be made to pay for and carry out the clean-up of this environmental and economic disaster they created.

K&R

[BeHereNow]

10. No, see...Israel is DEFENDING itself against marine life!

And Americans in Gaza too...

"Edited on Tue Aug-29-06 09:11 PM by BeHereNow
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
"In recent months, citizens of Western nations, including Americans, involved in pro-Palestinian volunteer efforts were assaulted and injured in the Occupied Territories by Israeli settlers and harassed (by the army). Those taking part in demonstrations, nonviolent resistance, and 'direct action' are advised to cease such activity for their own safety," it said."
That's right, your tax dollars, funneled to the IDF by a criminal congress,
have now made you a target OF the IDF and Israeli settlers..
Got it?
Good.
Now go back to sleep.
BHN"

[KoKo]

4. Good Grief...an Environmental Disaster has to go down to "I/P" Forum?

This is Environmental/Science. Why should it be down here? It's the first Oil Spill I've seen posted that was put in the "I/P" Forum.

:shrug: Bizarre.

[BeHereNow]

5. WTF???

Why was this moved to IP?
Shouldn't it go to the environmental forum?

hmmm...
BHN

[IntiRaymi]

6. This is a result of Israel's illegal actions, and it belongs here.

These items need to be discussed, at least to put on display the likely attitudes that will try to downplay these acts.

[Poll_Blind]

11. No appeal. I've already tried it on other threads. Sucks, don't it?

Thing that gets me, really, is that it's not like putting a post in I/P is the mailman delivering the right letter to the wrong house: It's taking the letter out of a mailbox and moving it to an entirely different one, implying an intentional judgment. An intentional judgment requires some sort of criteria and, I dunno, most of the mods DO seem to be on the game now days, but I have to wonder how much attention was really paid (look at the message, look at the replies) before moving it over.

It even happened when I wrote a satirical piece, already with over a dozen replies and votes, a mod deleted half the post without reading it or the replies, presuming that it was a fully-posted copyright article.

It doesn't happen so often anymore but I still see it with enough frequency that it's too bad there is intentionally no "paper trail" about who moved what where.

PB

[Tom Joad]

8. Environmental crime of the century. Thank you Israel! Thank you Bush!

[IntiRaymi]

9. Yes, the crime of the (new) century.

Last time this happened, it was Saddam that did it.
Interesting company that Olmert and the rest of his neo-Lehis have chosen to keep.