Sunken Tanker’s Oil Blackens Beaches
From Times Wire Reports
French police, firefighters and troops began cleaning oil that washed up on beaches from the sunken tanker Prestige, as bigger slicks lurked out at sea.
Gooey black fuel oil swept ashore this week on beaches in the Landes region near Bordeaux, in southwest France, and as far north as Ile de Re, a vacation island near La Rochelle.
The oil was the first to reach France from the Prestige, which sank in the Atlantic in November. A dozen slicks are within 60 miles of the French coast.
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