Petrol Stain Arrives to Patagonia for New Year, Nobody Responsible Yet


What a way to end up the year: a petrol stain four kilometers long arrived last Thursday to the coast of Caleta Cordova City at Chubut province, about 1860 kilometers south from Buenos Aires and is now moving open seas.

The origin? Still unknown, but when it arrived to the coast, it had been on the Ocean for a few days. In the area there is a port terminal that operates 5,5 million cubic meters of petrol a year, so many units could have caused the spill. The most possible speculation, according to El Chubut newspaper, points in the direction of the Presidente Arturo Illia tanker, which used to belong to YPF and suffered a huge accident of the same sort ten years …

December 31 2007 01:12 pm | Environment

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