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Oil slick moves towards Olympic Sailing venue

by julianw | August 13, 2008 at 03:14 pm

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A two square kilometer oil slick, apparently from a ship, is 30 miles away from the Olympic sailing venue of Qingdao, the Epoch Times reports. The oil is arriving just weeks after the venue's extreme algae festival.

A two square kilometre oil slick has been discovered about 55 kilometers off the coast of Jiaonan city's Lingshan Island, near Qingdao's Olympic sailing venue.

The slick is about 30 miles away from where the sailing is held and was found on August 11. Chinese regime officials say they think the oil came from a ship.

They said the oil will not affect the sailing races and they would make every effort to monitor and contain the spill.