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Article: Pollution and politics in the Black Sea.
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- Contemporary Review
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- May 1, 1999
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Turkey has accepted a convention defining the liability of ship-owners to compensate the victims of oil pollution and to meet the cost of ensuing spillage operations. The move is just one of many in a mounting confrontation with Russia over Black Sea shipping revenues generated by lucrative oil exports from the Caspian to Western Europe.
Russia wants to increase while Turkey would like to restrict traffic across the overcrowded and dangerous Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits linking the Black Sea with the Mediterranean.
All the major ports around the heavily polluted Black Sea are involved in the conflict. They are investing heavily, well beyond a new ...