“We fear that part of this pollution will reach the Corsican coast today,” maritime official Christine Ribbe told AFP. Some 80 members of the security forces and rescue services are also being drafted in to aid with the clean-up if the oil reaches the coast, local authorities said. By early Saturday, officials had detected two oil slicks measuring some 19 nautical miles (35 kilometres) across. “Surveillance by plane and helicopter mid-morning Saturday allowed us to locate several scattered slicks, some of which are approaching the coast,” Ribbe said. The heavy-grade oil is approaching Corsica’s Aleria coastline, a strip of sandy beaches.

Source: The Local June 12, 2021 12:55 UTC