One major water pollution accident at home and abroad
recent years, water pollution accidents occurred in succession at home and abroad, on the waters of serious damage to the ecological environment, aroused extensive attention.
2007 12 7 May, carrying about 260,000 tons of crude oil (about 180 million barrels) of Hong Kong, China nationality super tanker round of the West Coast in South Korea involved in a collision, The South Korean government dispatched hundreds of thousands of personnel to oil disposal, but also to clean up our government the power to mobilize support for the request.
2010 4 On 20 April, British Petroleum (BP company) leased in the Gulf of Mexico km of sea area at the explosion and fire caused the explosion lasted for 36 hours, after which the drilling platform sank to the bottom, a large number of crude oil broke into the Gulf of Mexico, instant and quickly spread. The bottom of the wells from the April 24 oil spill from more than, resulting in a large area of oil pollution, a serious threat to the ocean, wildlife, beaches and fisheries. Try a variety of measures, BP 20 September 2010 successfully plugging, which lasted 5 months. The oil well total to 490 million barrels of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, is the most serious marine oil pollution incidents. Accident to the local ecological environment has brought about disastrous consequences, but also caused widespread international concern. The United States spent a lot of advanced monitoring and surveillance, decontamination equipment and facilities, to dispose of pollution incidents, China has also invited some of Support to the U.S. emergency resources. The estimate for cleaning oil pollution incidents and to meet expenses claimed in the 3 to 25 billion U.S. dollars between.
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