Oil slick an environmental threat to the Mediterranean

OIL leaking from a bombed power station in Lebanon is threatening environmental devastation across the Mediterranean.

The massive slick reached the coastline of neighbouring Syria last week and is spreading north, menacing Turkey’s beaches.

Israeli jets hit storage tanks at the Jiyyeh plant south of the Lebanese capital Beirut at the beginning of the war, spilling an estimated 10,000 to 30,000 metric tons of oil into the Mediterranean, making it one of the worst environmental disasters of recent years.