NEW ORLEANS - Two oil storage tanks, damaged by Hurricane Katrina, have spilled millions of barrels of oil into a marsh south of New Orleans, officials said yesterday.
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality believes the two tanks, located in an oil storage, each contained two million barrels of oil, said spokesman Rodney Mallett.
The spill occurred near Venice, 120km south of New Orleans, in a peninsula that includes a wildlife refuge.
“We flew over in a plane and noticed an oil lake near Venice,” said Rodney Mallett, a DEQ spokesman. The oil spilled into a marsh between the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. — AFP
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