'Prestige' Disaster Launches Massive Response

Emergency teams from Ro-Clean Desmi deploy oil containment booms off the Spanish coast.

Oil from the sunken tanker Prestige continued to wash onto the beaches and pollute the rich fishing waters of north west Spain earlier this month as a major oil pollution response operation was underway and the ramifications of yet another major environmental disaster echoed across Europe.

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