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Draft Arctic Oil Spill Agreement Inadequate
2013-02-06 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Environmentalists are warning that a meeting of environment ministers that took place Monday in Sweden has agreed on a weak and inadequate response plan in case of an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean. According to Greenpeace, an environment watchdog, a leaked copy of the document suggests that the eight member states that make up a group dubbed the Arctic Council have failed to agree on the technical details necessary for dealing with a large-scale disaster, even while it opens the way for increased...
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