Workers clean up an oil spill caused by abnormal waves, triggered by a massive underwater volcanic eruption half a world away in Tonga, at the Peruvian beach in Ventanilla, Peru.
The Foreign Ministry said that the oil spill had harmed animal and plant life in protected zones over a combined area of some 18 000 square kilometers around islands and fishing regions. The spill from a tanker that was unloading crude at Spanish oil company Repsol’s La Pampilla refinery was blamed on unusually large waves after the massive undersea volcano explosion in Tonga some 10 000 km away triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean.“This is the worst ecological disaster that has occurred around Lima in recent times and has seriously damaged hundreds of fishermen’s families. Repsol must immediately compensate for the damage,” the Ministry said on Twitter.
Peru’s Supervisory Agency for Investment in Energy and Mining said in a statement it has ordered one of the refinery’s four terminals to be shut down until the causes of the spill are determined.
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