{"id":1224000,"date":"2022-01-19T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224000"},"modified":"2022-01-19T09:07:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:07:21","slug":"oil-spill-turns-peru-beach-black-after-tonga-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oil-spill-turns-peru-beach-black-after-tonga-eruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Spill Turns Peru Beach Black After Tonga Eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foil-spill-turns-peru-beach-black-after-tonga-eruption%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224000&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A Peruvian oil tanker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/peru-says-oil-spill-affects-least-2-kilometers-pacific-coast-beaches-2022-01-18\/\">spilled<\/a> much of its contents into the waters of the Pacific Ocean on Saturday affecting at least two miles of Peru\u2019s central coast after waves sparked by Tonga\u2019s volcanic eruption and tsunami that day in the South Pacific rocked the actively discharging ship, Peruvian government officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Peru\u2019s] National Institute of Civil Defense (Indeci) and the emergency center of the Ministry of Energy and Mines said in a statement that high tides recorded in Ventanilla, as a result of the [Tongan] volcano\u2019s eruption, had altered the process of unloading crude oil for the refinery,\u201d Reuters reported on January 17.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Peruvian Environment Minister Ruben Ramirez visited one of the main oil spill sites in the Peruvian municipality of Ventanilla on January 17 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IWWJk5f7jRk\">assess<\/a> the damage caused by the accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unfortunate. I am seeing that there is a serious impact on the coastal marine area. Initially two and a half kilometers [1.6 miles] (of damage) were reported, but now we see that it has affected two [additional] beaches,\u201d Ramirez told reporters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted Ramirez on January 18 as saying the oil spill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220118-peru-beaches-suffer-oil-spill-blamed-on-waves-from-tonga-volcanic-eruption\">affected<\/a> a \u201ctwo-mile stretch [of Peruvian coast] along three beaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ventanilla Manager of Citizen Security&nbsp;Fernando Ramirez&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/larepublica.pe\/sociedad\/2022\/01\/17\/derrame-de-petroleo-en-ventanilla-habria-sucedido-durante-carga-de-un-buque-tanque-italiano-atmp\/\">told<\/a> Canal N, a Peruvian TV news channel, local officials first learned of the oil spill on the afternoon of January 16, or about 24 hours after the oil tanker in question was disturbed by the Tongan origin waves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt one in the afternoon we learned that there was an oil spill, because on this side of the beach there was a strong smell of fuel,\u201d he told Canal N. \u201cFor this reason, in prior coordination with the [local] police, the aquatic rescue unit and our lifeguard personnel from the municipality entered the interior of the beach,\u201d he detailed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19544938\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237791643.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19544938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237791643-692x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Cleaning crews work to remove oil from a beach in the Peruvian province of Callao on January 17, 2022, after a spill which occurred during the unloading process of the Italian-flagged tanker \u201cMare Doricum\u201d at La Pampilla refinery caused by the abnormal waves recorded after the volcanic eruption in Tonga. (CRIS BOURONCLE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The task force has since erected several&nbsp;\u201ccontainment barriers of approximately 500 meters in length\u201d along Ventanilla\u2019s beaches to prevent the spilled oil from seeping further inland. The team further deployed \u201cthree vessels that were cleaning and collecting oil in the area\u201d as of January 17, according to Canal N.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShips worked on collecting oil still floating in the water, while workers in protective gear began cleaning oil that had washed ashore,\u201d AFP reported of the Peruvian government\u2019s recovery efforts on January 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElsewhere in Peru, two women drowned after being caught in waves caused by the volcanic eruption in Tonga,\u201d the news agency recalled on Tuesday. The deaths <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/impact-assessment-aid-efforts-underway-world-responds-tonga-tsunami-2022-01-16\/\">occurred<\/a> off a northern Peruvian beach, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>A volcanic eruption in the South Pacific island nation of Tonga obliterated the kingdom\u2019s uninhabited island of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai on January 15. The eruption\u2019s vibrational impact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2022\/01\/17\/2-drown-in-peru-after-tonga-tsunami-reaches-latin-america\/\">caused<\/a> a tsunami in Tonga that subsequently reverberated in the form of massive ocean waves that reached the Pacific coasts of Peru and Chile 6,600 miles away in mere hours. The natural phenomenon was felt through either sound or water waves across Pacific-adjacent nations over the weekend, including Japan and the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Peruvian oil tanker spilled much of its contents into the waters of the Pacific Ocean on Saturday affecting at least two miles of Peru\u2019s central coast after waves sparked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}