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Oil Pollution : Finland Helps Lebanon
28/Aug/2006: Finland's Enviornment Minister Jan-Erik Enestam has said that his country would be sending equipment worth some 770,000$ to help Lebanon for cleaning up an oil spill caused by Israeli air raids on a power plant.
More than 15,000 tons of heavy fuel oil spilt into the sea after Israeli planes bombed a power plant in Jiyeh, south of Beirut, last month.
And the oil slicks have contaminated beaches along 150 kilometres of the Lebanese coast, posing a serious threat to wildlife, especially seabirds and sea turtles. It also endangers local groundwater supplies.
The bulk of the new troops came from Italy and France. Other countries committed smaller units. Belgium volunteered 400 soldiers, including critical land-mine removal units. Germany and Denmark offered naval forces, and the Finnish foreign minister spoke of sending 250 soldiers, if his parliament approved.
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