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Lebanon Surveys Environmental Damage From Oil Spill

HeadlineAug 30, 2006

Lebanese officials have conducted a new aerial survey of the massive oil spill on Beirut’s coastline. Up to 15,000 tons of oil spilled into the sea following Israel’s bombing of a power plant at the outset of its attack on Lebanon. This is environmental expert Georges Pinier.

  • Environmental Expert Georges Pinier: “The objective of this trip today was to get additional data comparing to what we already got yesterday with the first survey we did for which we did not go further north than Tripoli. This is why we had to go to the border. What we have seen mainly is that there is no oil underwater in the sea, all the oil which is there is at the coastline.”

Lebanon was able to conduct the new survey only after receiving permission from Israel, which continues an air and sea blockade.

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