Yemen tanker: UN crowdfunding to prevent catastrophic oil spill
The UN has launched a crowdfunding drive to raise $5m (£4.1m) in two weeks for an operation to remove a million barrels of crude oil from a decaying supertanker off Yemen's Red Sea coast./ The FSO Safer has had virtually no maintenance since the start of Yemen's devastating civil war seven years ago./ But work to prevent such a disaster has been delayed due to a funding shortage./ UN member states have only pledged about $60m of the $80m needed for the initial operation to transfer the oil to another vessel. An additional $64m is needed for ...
Click
To Read Full Article