"'Prestige' Oil Spill" (by Paul Hardy Carter)

Cangas, Spain. December 2002. The local fishing grounds having been closed by oil contamination from the sunk tanker 'Prestige', two fishermen discuss their immediate future.

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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. The local fishing grounds having been closed by oil contamination from the sunk tanker 'Prestige', two fishermen discuss their immediate future.
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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. At dawn, all available boats are pressed into service to take volunteers to the contaminated areas, and to return with the recovered oil for recycling.

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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. At dawn, all available boats are pressed into service to take volunteers to the contaminated areas, and to return with the recovered oil for recycling.
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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. Volunteers from all over Spain clean the equipment used to scrape the oil off the rocky coast.

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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. Volunteers from all over Spain clean the equipment used to scrape the oil off the rocky coast.
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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. A local fisherman, unable to work due to the fishing ban, has volunteered to help clear up the oil. Wearing protective clothing, he waits to be taken to the contaminated areas.

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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. A local fisherman, unable to work due to the fishing ban, has volunteered to help clear up the oil. Wearing protective clothing, he waits to be taken to the contaminated areas.
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Rio Vigo, Spain, December 2002. Local fishermen, unable to work due to oil contamination of the oyster beds, pass their place of work on the way to help clear oil from the Ceis Islands nature reserve.

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Rio Vigo, Spain, December 2002. Local fishermen, unable to work due to oil contamination of the oyster beds, pass their place of work on the way to help clear oil from the Ceis Islands nature reserve.
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Ceis Islands Nature Reserve, Spain. December 2002. Volunteers from all over Spain help to pick the oil off the beaches by hand.

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Ceis Islands Nature Reserve, Spain. December 2002. Volunteers from all over Spain help to pick the oil off the beaches by hand.
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Ceis Islands Nature Reserve, Spain. December 2002. The oil washes ashore in lumps, having congealed in the Atlantic. Volunteers using self made nets try to catch the pil before it washes up on the beaches, while others pick up the oil that has already con

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Ceis Islands Nature Reserve, Spain. December 2002. The oil washes ashore in lumps, having congealed in the Atlantic. Volunteers using self made nets try to catch the pil before it washes up on the beaches, while others pick up the oil that has already con
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Ceis Islands Nature Reserve, Spain. December 2002. Volunteers from all over Spain help to pick the oil off the beaches by hand. The fishing boats in the background are used to take the recovered oil away for recycling.

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Ceis Islands Nature Reserve, Spain. December 2002. Volunteers from all over Spain help to pick the oil off the beaches by hand. The fishing boats in the background are used to take the recovered oil away for recycling.
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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. Volunteer workers direct the lifting of a container of recovered oil onto the dockside.

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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. Volunteer workers direct the lifting of a container of recovered oil onto the dockside.
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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. A local fishing boat, it's decks covered in plastic sheeting to help prevent the spread on the sicky toxic oil, returns to port with containers of recovered oil.

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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. A local fishing boat, it's decks covered in plastic sheeting to help prevent the spread on the sicky toxic oil, returns to port with containers of recovered oil.
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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. Volunteers from a Spanish Scout organisation cover the trucks to be used to transport the recovered oil to the nearest refinerey for contamination.

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Cangas, Spain. December 2002. Volunteers from a Spanish Scout organisation cover the trucks to be used to transport the recovered oil to the nearest refinerey for contamination.
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San Vincente del Mar, Spain. December 2002. Rubber buckets used by the volunteers to scrape the oil off the rocky coast.

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San Vincente del Mar, Spain. December 2002. Rubber buckets used by the volunteers to scrape the oil off the rocky coast.
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San Vincente del Mar, Spain. December 2002. A volunteer after an arduous shift scraping oil of the rocky coast by hand.

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San Vincente del Mar, Spain. December 2002. A volunteer after an arduous shift scraping oil of the rocky coast by hand.
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