OIL companies are unprepared to deal with spills in ice-bearing sea. That’s the warning from experts who say that efforts to develop machines that can mop up these spills are falling behind the growth in oil exploration, which will lead to more spills.
One flash point is the Gulf of Finland, the main route into the North Sea for Russian tankers. Environmentalists say that as the largest area of brackish water in the world, the gulf is a unique habitat and acts as an important stop-off for migrating birds in summer. Only good fortune has saved the area from a…
