How bad can the North Sea collision be for the environment?

London – On Monday A collision between the cargo ship and the oil tanker In the Northern Sea, “has a high risk of being an environmental disaster in really important protective areas,” Naomi Tili said on Tuesday, Oceana UK, Oceans News, an oil and gas company.

The British Coast Guard said a mile -mile zone had been created near both courts.

“At this stage, it is too early to evaluate the degree of any environmental damage,” Greenpece UK said in an early Tuesday, explaining that the severity of any impact will depend on a number of factors, including “the number and type of oil that is transferred by the tanker, which is transferred.

In the UK, the coast stated that her meeting with pollution and salvation “evaluates the situation” and “develops a plan ready for implementation as soon as the situation”.

The air quality in the area was reported to have been normal, and there was a “very low” risk of public health on the nearby shores, the UK Health Agency reports.

“At this stage, it is really difficult to find out what it will behave in the water and how it will behave, but in almost any circumstances it is bad news,” Tili CBS News said.

Tanker's collision near protective marine areas

A number of protective marine animals, as well as vital fishing stocks for the UK and other European countries, live in the Northern Sea.

The UK ocean believes that the collision has occurred about two protected areas, including, including the maritime districts of the South North Sea, which is intended to protect the harbor, Tilly said.

“This is a really important sphere of breeding, and in this area a large part of the world population has been found,” she said.

Harbour Porpoise is a “species that should go out to the surface to breathe, so it will not be able to avoid strokes on the surface,” Tili CBS News said.

Meanwhile, offshore seafore zone is intended for safety places on the sea floor.

“It has ocean quagogs that have been living for centuries. They are such shellfish that live long. Both stars and underwater sponges … They are both very important parts of the sea, and they are very close when not where this incident happened,” Tilly said.

Possible pollutants

According to Krouli, the US group of the US group operating on the vessel, both courts that participated in the collision would have their own fuel for movement, and the American tanker, which was beaten, was also impeccable, Mv Sena was also transported by reactive fuel.

Reactive fuel is toxic to maritime life, and Kroul said that as a result of the disaster, some of them were released.

“The Immaculate Stana, which maintained a rupture of the freight tank containing Jet-A1 fuel because of the collision,” Krouli said in a Reuters statement. “As a result, there was a fire.”

On Tuesday, it was still unclear how much reactive fuel was released and how much may already be burned in the fire.

Initial reports showed that the containers carrying Sodium cyanide were aboard another ship, a cargo ship with Portuguese, called MV Solong. Sodium cyanide is a toxic substance that evaporates quickly and can create dangerous air conditions on the surface of the water to clean the crews and animals.

However, the vessel that works with the vessel, Ernst Rust said that there were no containers containing sodium cyanide on Sodium on Tuesday, but that there were four that had previously contained a chemical and they were controlled.

Potential risks for the fishing industry – and consumers

Tili said the collision pollution could affect fish reserves in the North Sea and the people who rely on them.

“The North Sea is an extremely important area for fishing in the UK, but also European fishing fleets,” Tilly said.

According to her, the degree of any pollution of the environment is still unknown, but “can have a really long -term effect on society, for example, or can chemicals in the water. If it affects the fish stocks and the population we eat, it can affect the fishing branch.”

Tili noted that the previous large oil spills “led to a rather huge area where fishing was not allowed from the contaminated fish for a long time.”