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Naphtha advances in the Mediterranean

Naphtha advances in the Mediterranean
Manlio Dinucci - taken from www.ilmanifesto.it of August 6, 2006
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The oil spill caused by Israeli bombardment of the thermoelectric plant Jiyyeh ( 30 km south of Beirut), on 13-15 July, is becoming increasingly common in the Mediterranean . Leakage from the tanks on fire is a quantity naphtha (such as Ifo-150) that could have reached 35 thousand tons. Because of the winds that blow from the southwest and sea currents, the oil slick has spread in northeast covering over 80 km of the Lebanese coastline, rocky and sandy, where all the fishing and tourism . The environmental damage is much greater than the visible: turning into tar, much of the oily mass will settle to the bottom of the sea, seriously damaging the plants and animals in coastal waters, the richest of lives. Continuing to expand, the oil spill has reached the coast on August 3 Syrian contamination as well 7 km. From here you could reach Cyprus, Turkey and Greece.

This confirms the alarm raised by Achim Steiner, UN Under Secretary General and Executive Director of ' UNEP (see the poster, August 3): " is an environmental tragedy which is rapidly assuming a dimension not only national but regional . At the request of the Lebanese government, as well as the United Nations Programme on the Environment will be immediately activated Rempec (Center for Emergency Response regional marine pollution for the Mediterranean) based in Malta. It has formed a group of experts, which drafted an action plan to curb the environmental impact of the oil spill and then deal with the long-term damage. The European Union has offered, among other countries, to provide personnel and equipment for an operation whose cost of remediation is estimated at least $ 50 million. There is one problem: there can be no action because the Israeli navy prevents access to the area and the air force continues to bomb.

All this is ignored by the public. The newspapers and television news, which always put the news on the front page of any oil spill from a tanker and after the event day by day, have virtually ignored by the July 13 date, which is spreading in the Mediterranean a sea of \u200b\u200bblack size than that produced in 1989 in Alaska from the tanker Exxon Valdez .

I also ignore environmental organizations like WWF . It ignores the Minister of the Environment, Land and Sea, Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, who, opening August 4 Festambiente in Maremma, spoke on 'networks in the Mediterranean: a commitment of institutions and communities for a sustainable future. " Are many other networks should be addressed: those of the silence imposed by reasons of state. Take note of the public environmental tragedy that is occurring in the Mediterranean, the Italian Government would withdraw the charge: the Israeli government, which first gave orders to bomb Lebanese deposits of oil and then prevented any intervention so that the environmental damage from getting worse and become irreversible. Would report the fact that Israel has played the Barcelona Convention, which has signed and ratified the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean.

Manlio Dinucci