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28.04.2004 March 2004 the Prestige debacle (March 2003)
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Reporting in progress - expect updates the politics of irresponsibility Dutch MEP Dirk Sterckx pulled no punches regarding Spain’s responsibility for the Prestige catastrophe and their shameful treatment of Captain Scapegoat Mangouras, master of the Prestige.
Spain claims that they will start extracting the remaining 13.700 tonnes of oil [1] in the wreck of the Prestige from the beginning of May. Most of the oil in the the bow will be extracted by the gravity method already trialed, but about 1,300 tonnes will have to be removed by biological methods, as will the 700 tonnes still in the stern. The extraction budget is 99 million euros [$177 million], two thirds being for development costs and one third for actual extraction costs. This on top of the 1.7 million euros cost of cleaning the filthy, poisonous residual tar oil from French beaches, and the 1,000 million euros claimed by the Spanish for cleaning their coastline and beaches. 99 mil.+ 1.7 mil. + 1,000 mil. = 1,100.7 million euros (or over 1 billion €) down the drain, all because Spanish politicians and marine bureaucrats, thinking they knew better, went for an enormous irresponsible, quick fix. 1.Report in Spanish from the Spanish Merchant Marine Association. |
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