a new oil leak is being tackled on the pacific coast of peru. it happened just ten days after a major crude spill which has been called the biggest ecological disaster to hit the south american country in recent year, killing scores of seals, fish and birds. but the clean up teams have been using a rather unusual method to mop up the spill as stephanie prentice explains. volunteers have been inching forward in an attempt to clean up the coast here, but now efforts have taken two steps back as another leak has seeped into the problems of teams here on the beaches on a coastline, local fishermen say, smells like death. mopping up the oil is slow work and doing it quickly no small feat of ingenuity. the major spill almost two weeks ago led to a national cry for help in one unusual campaign, asking people to donate not their time, but hair, to be used in clea nu p efforts.
portraits of the holocaust . 0ne one of those portraits is of course of lily ebert who we heard from their. a new oil leak is being tackled on the pacific coast of peru. it happened just ten days after a major crude spill which has been called the biggest ecological disaster to hit the south american country in recent years, killing scores of seals, fish and birds. but the clean up teams have been using a rather unusual method to mop up the spill as stephanie prentice explains. volunteers have been inching forward in the attempt to clean up the coast here in ventanilla, but now efforts have taken two steps back, as another leak has seeped into the problems of teams here on the beaches on the coastline local fishermen say smells like death. mopping up the oil is slow work and doing it quickly no small feat of ingenuity.
they toured the huts, gas chambers and crematoria and relived their horrifying experiences. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: britain s prince andrew demands a trial byjury as he rejects the allegations of sexual assault made by virginia giuffre. the us formally responds to russia s concerns over ukraine saying they ve offered moscow a serious diplomatic path forward. a new oil leak is being tackled on the pacific coast of peru, just ten days after a major crude spill which has been called the biggest ecological disaster to hit the south american country in recent years, killing scores of seals, fish and birds. stephanie prentice reports.
in an update tonight on a story we ve been reporting on exxon is responding to criticism from the crude spill in arkansas and they re getting defensive. they tweeted this afternoon exxonmobil will pay for cleanup costs in mayflower, arkansas, anything to the contrary is not true. and this will remain in place until further notice. only relief aircraft operations under the direction of tom suhroff are aloud. tom happens to work for exxon so they will have to ask exxon s permission for this. an faa spokesperson said officials were amending the restriction to allow news media aircraft. we will continue to monitor this
what are residents being told? we re here in mayflower, arkansas. thanks for coffering the story. when you get off the freeway, you can really smell the oil spill. i spent some time today walking through the evacuated neighborhoods. there aren t a lot of neighbors around to tell their story, but the story is told by their oil soaked backyard, the smell in the street, and the fact that the tar sands oil has taken a chunk out of mayflower, arkansas. my producers and i were going through news accounts of the spill. it was so startling. almost no one seemed to know they were atop this oil pipeline. no, they don t know that. and actually, what exxon has been telling folks, the story seems to be that this is just regular old west texas crude. when in fact it is tar sands thick canadian oil coming from alberta, as you mentioned. this is a much bigger mess than a simple crude spill.