China Dealing With Oil Spill, Too

Greenpeace releases dramatic photos
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 21, 2010 4:06 PM CDT
China Dealing With Oil Spill, Too
In this photo released by Greenpeace, a firefighter rushes to aid his colleagues who ran into trouble fixing an underwater pump.   (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)

China is struggling to contain an oil spill of its own, and Greenpeace has released dramatic photos of the operation. The trouble started Friday when a pipeline exploded in the port city of Dalian, sending crude into the Yellow River, reports the Christian Science Monitor. The spill currently covers 165 square miles of water, a figure that doubled since yesterday bur remains a fraction of the BP spill's 2,700 square miles.
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