Oil Spills in last 50 years

By kai kenton
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    Amoco Cadiz, 1978

    227,000 tonnes of oil wash up on 400 kilometres of French coastline when the Liberian-registered supertanker sinks off Brittany.
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    Gulf War 1991

    Around one million tonnes is estimated to have spilled when Iraqi forces set fire to Kuwaiti oil wells. Hundreds of kilometres of coastline are polluted.
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    The Odyssey, 1998

    The British ship carrying 132,000 tonnes of oil sinks with its 27-member crew in the Atlantic, 1,300 kilometres from the Canadian coast.
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    United States, The Explosion of the Deepwater Horizon

    An oil rig explosion, operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico, leaves 11 dead and leads to the spillage of more than 600,000 tonnes of oil.