Gulf War Cleanup Financing Sought
Persian Gulf states are seeking $2.8 billion from the international community to help clean up Gulf War pollution, a Bahraini environmental official said Tuesday.
Khalid Fakhro, vice chairman of Bahrain’s Environmental Protection Committee, told a Middle East oil conference in Bahrain that representatives of a regional environmental group and the U.N. Environment Program will meet in New York this month or early next year to decide how to finance the plan.
Six to 8 million barrels of crude oil spilled into the Gulf during the six-week war for Kuwait, destroying most of Saudi Arabia’s northeast coastline and part of the Iranian coast and causing crop damage and animal deaths.
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