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This creates an area of more than 40 m2 to collect oil-polluted seawater.

They will argue that such a price will be crucial to pay for the reconstruction of Kuwait, including the cleanup of the oil-polluted gulf.

Abandoned and often disintegrating nuclear submarines have become a danger to the seas, former barracks have left a legacy of oil-polluted soil.

Government scientists sampling the oil-polluted water around Narragansett Bay this morning differed on how serious the spill from the World Prodigy was likely to be.

Other incidents included the discharge of oil-polluted water into the Main river and the discharge of a chemical cloud, said to be harmless, which coloured cars parked nearby turquoise.

The discovery, based on acute organ damage found in the carcasses of oil-covered otters, may have serious implications for other species of animals inhabiting or passing through the oil-polluted area.

Leading Saudi environmental groups said that because the gulf has only a narrow outlet to the open sea at the Strait of Hormuz, it would take three to five years for the oil-polluted water to be replaced by clean water.

Convicted of negligent discharge of oil, Hazelwood was sentenced to 1,000 hours' community service to help clean up oil-polluted beaches and was ordered to pay US$50,000 in restitution to the state for his part in the spill.

For two years, beginning in 1991, Mobil - which had not yet merged with Exxon - agreed to install monitors, as required by a new federal law, in the two large open-air ponds where oil-polluted water had long been discharged.