Spain braced for biggest slick yet

The government of Spain’s Galicia region, grappling with an ecological disaster following the sinking of an oil tanker, today warned coastal residents to brace for the worst as the biggest slick yet oozed relentlessly toward land.

Strong winds off Spain’s north-west coast were pushing the sprawling, amorphous mass toward Cape Finisterre, one of the areas already tarred by fuel oil from the tanker Prestige, said Enrique Lopez Veiga, the Galician fisheries minister.