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Article: Black Sea oil spill blamed on Russia's lax standards.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 15, 2007
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Byline: Fred Weir Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Moscow -- Sunday's Black Sea storm was admittedly one of the worst on record. But nature's ferocity may pale next to human recklessness as an explanation for what Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov described as "the biggest mass sinking of ships" in the country's history.
"You can't blame everything on the weather," noted Mr. Zubkov, as he opened an inquiry into the disaster, in which an aged river tanker spewed at least 560,000 gallons of fuel oil in the narrow Strait of Kerch - nearly 10 times the size of San Francisco's Nov. 7 spill.
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