each bucket weighs 30kg. everyday 200tones leave the shipwreck.

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday December 10, 2002 19:56 by never again - touches on national regional interantional ecological social and rights campaigns. The Atlantic area common heritage to Western Civilisation.

now 4500 soldiers have been sent to the beaches.

Aznar finally speaks on Galicia to admit mistakes have been made. 2500 people have gathered at the chalet of Fraga the President of the Galician autonomy calling for his resignation. 200 tonnes are leaving through numerous fissures on the Prestige.

The French registered submarine has returned photos of the oil leaving, as preidcted it would not long ago "like a lavalamp".

So What has Aznar said he got wrong?
well not very much. He maintains the line that there´s not much a state government can do in such circumstances.
Which is why only yesterday were State employees (soldiers) sent to the beaches.

It is most unpleasant work.
each bucket weighs 30kg.
200more tonnes leave the wreck everyday.
Volunteers are being asked to leave some of the areas and some are resisting this.

The site of the Prestige wreck is being visited by the greenpeace craft Rainbow Warrior which left Galizia the day before yesterday over a thousand people gathered to wish it good speed.

Many of the questions that were asked are being answered.
who owned the oil, what was said between ship and shore, what advice the government Fraga and Aznar recieved and more significant each day what advice they chose4 to ignore.
The indemnity of the carrier is now being called into question.
After the Erika incident the French Republic succesfully raised the percentage of payout liable to the carrier. It had previously been limited by an agreement part brokered by the Spanish state. It is thought at most 80% of the cost will have to borne by the owners of the Oil and ship.

The Salvage company Smit of the Nederlands who as I told you all those weeks ago advised against scuttling in such deep water have declined to buy the Prestige and so far no salvage company has chosen to claim salvage rights.

If you wish to claim salvage rights you may sail southish from Cork or the Blaskets or the Skelligs for a few days at most, hoist a little flag, send down a diver, fill in some paperwork, and you too could be liable for this disaster.
(If you did this you would be well popular with the "Popular Party" in España which will reap slow damage from this disaster. Which isn´t really fair. They should be attacked on other more issues. Anyway. Fraga´s sea-side chalet looks like the Skelligs or the Blaskets.

¿Didn´t they get it wrong?

But now the cost of the disaster can be argued over for years by lawyers.

well they didn´t get it all wrong. One of Aznar´s valued female ministers put it quite nicely on the 21st of November "there are hundreds of these ecological bombs floating in what is the N30 of shipping lanes, it´s not just Oiltankers".
She has not been reported to have issued any more such passionate uterrances of the truth since.

each bucket weighs 30kg.
volunteers are soldier beach squads work in groups af average 15-25.
They work for between 7 and 12 hours a day depending on the length of their stay.

The German oilspill vessel which arrived at the shipwreck site in fine weather on the 22nd of November is now on the 10th of December in bad weather accompanied by the Spanish naval cleaning squad.
Ireland has no equipemnt of this sort so in the O as-if situation, it would have to borrow these things from neighbours. The norwegians are very up to scratch on this stuff though and lent fine helicopters to the Gardaí back in 1979 for the Pope (great man he)´s visit.