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Containment and cleanup

Although Chinese government officials report as little as 1,500 tonnes of oil spilled, a former University of Alaska marine conservation specialist, Rick Steiner, estimates the spill to have a much higher total, with somewhere in the range of 60,000 to 90,000 tons (18.47 to 27.70 million gallons) of oil spilled into the Yellow Sea. He said that "[i]t's enormous. That's at least as large as the official estimate of the Exxon Valdez disaster." However, a government spokesperson for Dalian refuted this estimate, and referred to a panel of experts assessing the spill's size and environmental impact saying that "[w]e will know w[h]ether it's smaller or bigger than 60,000 tons based on the conclusion made by the panel".

The ensuing fire burned for 15 hours and one firefighter drowned after being swept overboard into the water. There was extensive damage to local wildlife areas, aquaculture, and beaches were closed following the spill and conflagration which appeared to have been caused by the injection of a highly oxidizing sulfur reducing agent into a pipeline.

On 26 July 2010 the Chinese local government announced the spill had been contained and that the spill had failed to reach open waters. Cleanup efforts continued 2 weeks after the original explosion began, with operations to remove the oil performed at night when the oil is most viscous.

Source : http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...an_harbor.html

Tourists rest beside protective booms which were placed to control leaked oil at the Fujia Bay bathing beach in Dalian, China on July 26, 2010.

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fixed

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they need better protection to clean the oil spill, fuck that