Tens of Thousands of People Take Part in a Demonstration in Santiago De Compostela
Date: 03-Dec-02
Country: SPAIN
Author: DB
Photo: MIGUEL VIDAL
The 26-year-old Bahamas-flagged vessel Prestige took some 70,000 tons of fuel oil to the bottom of the Atlantic when it finally broke up on November 19.
The thick oil has washed up on beaches and rocks over a 400 km stretch of the Galician coast, coating seabirds and endangering shellfish stocks vital to the local economy.