A close-up view of the FSO Safer oil tanker on 19 June 2020 off the port of Ras Isa, Yemen (Maxar Technologies via AFP)
The Guardian: Rotting Red Sea oil tanker could leave 8m people without water
FSO Safer has been abandoned since 2017 and loss of its 1.1m barrels would destroy Yemen’s fishing stocks
The impact of an oil spill in the Red Sea from a tanker that is rotting in the water could be far wider than anticipated, with 8 million people losing access to running water and Yemen’s Red Sea fishing stock destroyed within three weeks.
Negotiations are under way to offload the estimated 1.1m barrels of crude oil that remains onboard the FSO Safer, which has been deteriorating by the month since it was abandoned in 2017. The vessel contains four times the amount of oil released by the Exxon Valdez in the Gulf of Alaska in 1989, and a spill is considered increasingly probable.
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WNU Editor: A 1.1 million oil spill will devastate that part of Yemen's shoreline for years.
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5 comments:
Bacteria do eat oil. For some strange reasons environmentalists try to keep people from using bacteria to remediate oil spills.
Pretty sure the fish would survive and fishing stock back to normal in 3 to 5 years if not sooner.
Oil prices sky rocketing and no one has snagged the tanker? the Iranians could snag it. Sell the oil and then use it as a target ship. they do like shooting at oil tankers. So they could hone their skills.
Meanwhile world governments are wasting billions on reducing greenhouse gas and trying to stop the ocean from rising.
To hell with the here and now they say.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Safer
Looks to be a Houthi/Iranian problem. Take them to court.
That is banking offshore
As the suits discuss the disaster approaches.
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