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 3. Activists warn spill, radioactive risks from Australian vessel
    decommissioning


ACTIVISTS WARN SPILL, RADIOACTIVE RISKS FROM AUSTRALIAN VESSEL DECOMMISSIONING

The decommissioning include activities such as cleaning of the vessel’s topsides
and subsea infrastructures, de-mucking of liquids with residue of “naturally
occurring radioactive materials,” as well as towing the vessel to an undisclosed
“international destination.”




A. MUH. IBNU AQIL

The Jakarta Post

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Handout picture released by the Peruvian Navy revealing signs of an oil spill
off the coast of Callao, Peru, while works were being carried out on an
underwater pipeline at the refinery of Spanish Company Repsol, on January 25,
2022. (AFP/Peruvian Navy)

May 15, 2023

JAKARTA – Spanish energy giant Repsol on Thursday vowed to finish by March
cleaning up a devastating oil spill that has polluted beaches and killed
wildlife.

Almost 12,000 barrels of crude spilled into the sea off Peru on January 15 as a
tanker unloaded oil at a Repsol owned refinery.

“We expect that if the weather allows us then, in mid-March” the cleaning of
beaches and islands off the coast will be completed, Repsol’s environmental
security director Jose Terol told reporters.

However, he warned that it would take a little longer to finish cleaning cliffs
and rocks that are difficult to access.

“By mid-February, there will already be no more slicks in the sea. In an
optimistic scenario, work on the difficult to access areas will be finished by
the end of March,” said Terol.

Peru’s government described the spill — which Repsol blamed on freak waves
caused by a volcanic eruption more than 10,000 kilometers away near Tonga — as
an “ecological disaster.”

The oil slick has been dragged by ocean currents about 140 kilometers north of
the refinery, prosecutors said, causing the death of an undetermined number of
fish and seabirds. 

Peru has demanded compensation from Repsol, and the energy giant faces a
potential $34.5 million fine, the Environment Ministry has said.

Even as the Repsol spokesman spoke, a group of protesters from the hard-hit
nearby beach town of Ancon gathered with signs and chanted demands outside the
plant.

“Repsol accept responsibility”, and “Repsol murderer, the beaches of Ancon are
in mourning” were among their signs.

“The reason for the protest is that (the oil spill) has left us without work
because of this contamination of the sea in Ancon,” Miguel Basurto, a
53-year-old motorcycle taxi driver, told AFP. 

“We feel outraged because we have no support from the Repsol company. They clean
their hands of it, and go away and leave us with all this pollution that affects
children and the elderly,” said merchant Ana Garrido, 40.

It was the first time since the spill that Repsol let journalists visit its La
Pampilla refinery — to see how 90 specialists there are managing the 3,000
people who are cleaning up the spill.

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