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Oil spills from Petrobras pipeline into Brazil coastal area

2015-06-19 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Oil spilled from a pipeline linking a main Atlantic Ocean terminal with a refinery near Rio de Janeiro on Friday, Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said. The spill contaminated a coastal wetland area and leaked into the ocean, a spokesman for the union representing employees at the refinery said. The narrow coastal region where the spill occurred is in Rio de Janeiro's Costa Verde or "Green Coast" - one of Brazil's most beloved tourist regions and home to one of the last...

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