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1-2 tons of oil leak from Lithuania s Butinge terminal, move towards Latvia 2020-12-28 LETA/BNS/TBT Staff
VILNIUS/RIGA – An oil leak has been reported on Monday at Lithuania s Butinge Terminal owned by Polish-capital oil import and processing company Orlen Lietuva (Orlen Lithania). The fact has been confirmed to BNS by the commander of Lithuania s Maritime Rescue Coordination Center.
Environment Minister Simonas Gentvilas says the oil stain is moving into the open sea towards Latvia, which has also been confirmed to BNS by a representative of the Environmental Protection Department.
According to Gentvilas, the stain now covers an approximate a.
december 28, 2020, 14:26 An oil spill that happened in Lithuanian waters is heading towards the Latvian coast, according to Lithuanian public media s LRT English-language service December 28.
LRT, citing the Baltic News Service, said an accident at the Būtingė Terminal owned by Poland’s Orlen Lietuva subsidiary resulted in around 1 square kilometer of pollution in the open sea which is now moving in the direction of Latvia. Environmental protection inspectors have launched an investigation and are calculating environmental damage, Arūnas Malinovskis, head of communications at the Environmental Protection Department was quoted as saying.
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