Oil spill | Peru declares ‘environmental emergency’

(Lima) The Peruvian government announced on Saturday a 90-day “environmental emergency” for the coastal area damaged by the spill of 6,000 barrels of crude oil a week ago.

Posted at 3:29 p.m.

Thanks to this measure, the authorities are planning a “sustainable management of the affected areas”, with “recovery and sanitation work” of the 21 soiled beaches after the accident, which occurred during a crude oil unloading operation from a tanker at a refinery near Lima.


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