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On Wednesday, December 21, #SkyTruth obtained a radar #satellite #image showing a major oil spill in the waters off the coast of #Nigeria. The image, taken at approximately 9:30am local time on December 21, 2011 by the ASAR instrument aboard the Envisat satellite operated by the European Space Agency, reveals a slick covering 923 square kilometers (356 square miles). The image may be viewed and downloaded from the SkyTruth blog.

Image #republication is #permitted with the following credit statement:

“Envisat ASAR image analyzed by SkyTruth (►http://www.skytruth.org) - data courtesy European Space Agency”

Déjà cité (►http://seenthis.net/spip.php?page=recherche&recherche=skytruth), à présent lié...

Nigeria on alert as Shell announces worst oil spill in a decade | Environment | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/22/nigerian-shell-oil-spill

Nigerian coastal and fishing communities were on Thursday put on alert after Shell admitted to an oil spill that is likely to be the worst in the area for a decade, according to government officials..

The company said up to 40,000 barrels of crude oil was spilled on Wednesday while it was transferred from a floating oil platform to a tanker 75 miles off the coast of the Niger delta.

http://www.skytruth.org/images/Shell_Nigeriawithpolygon.jpg

#Nigeria #pétrole #pollution