1967 UK oil spill: “43 years on, gloopy black oil from the spill was still daily killing wildlife” — “A warning of the possible long-term implications of the BP disaster”

January 18th, 2011 at 08:50 AM

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What happened next? Torrey Canyon oil clean-up, Guernsey, Guardian, December 27, 2010:

In 1967 the Torrey Canyon ran aground between Land's End and the Isles of Scilly, spilling every drop of its cargo of 119,328 tonnes of crude oil. ...

Extraordinarily, earlier this year, 43 years on, gloopy black oil from the spill was still daily killing wildlife – a warning of the possible long-term implications of the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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2 comments to 1967 UK oil spill: “43 years on, gloopy black oil from the spill was still daily killing wildlife” — “A warning of the possible long-term implications of the BP disaster”

• a female faust

  January 19, 2011 at 10:19 pm · Reply

  really? proven not to share fingerprint with oil from the Deepwater Horizon?

  hopefully someone will check.

  if my thinking this is obviously erroneous, please tell me why. otherwise, test the oil -- it makes a difference.

• xdrfox

  January 19, 2011 at 10:54 pm · Reply

  a female faust
  HUH ? It should not match, but deaths from Oil is still Oil ! After all this time the oil is still killing there !

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