Major New Slick Hits Spain Coast

World | December 1, 2002, Sunday // 00:00

Patches of oil from a 9,000 ton oil slick are washing up on Spain's Galician coast - two weeks after the sinking of the tanker Prestige. The rest of the huge slick from the sunken tanker is about one kilometre off the north-west shore; strong winds are expected to be force it ashore soon. The province has spent the past two weeks cleaning up its previously pristine coast after an initial 6,000-ton slick came ashore, wrecking the local economy which depends largely on fishing. The 26-year-old, single-hulled Prestige was damaged in a heavy storm and sank on 19 November while being towed out to sea.

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