Oil and Water Mix in the Shetlands

The World

Stephen Beard reports from the Shetland Islands on the Braer tanker disaster. As hosts to one of Europe’s largest tanker terminals, Shetlanders have taken strict and successful precautions against spills from their own operations, and they are angry that the regulations did not apply to passing tanker traffic.

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