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Business Matters: Ocean Risk From Toxic Tanker Spill

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Tanker spill means toxic 'plume' risk

16/01/2018 GMT

Ocean Risk From Toxic Tanker Spill

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Ocean Risk From Toxic Tanker Spill

The Sanchi was carrying 136,000 tonnes of condensate when it collided with a freighter

The Sanchi was carrying 136,000 tonnes of condensate when it collided with a freighter.

Where an Iranian oil tanker had been burning off the Chinese coast for more than a week, there is now a large slick of some of the most toxic oil. The Sanchi was carrying 136,000 tonnes of condensate when it collided with a Hong Kong freighter on January 6. The 32 crew members are all now believed lost. 

It was carrying 136 thousand tonnes - almost one million barrels - of condensate, a light crude oil.Richard Steiner is an Oil Spill Environmental Specialist based in Anchorage, Alaska, and he says that while the fuel cannot probably be recovered, wildlife can be kept from the "plume" of toxic condensate.

Also in the programme: Washington is about to hear from two of the key figures in the Trump team during his campaign for the presidency, Steve Bannon, former senior Trump adviser is to give evidence to the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, and Paul Manafort, Mr Trump's former campaign manager, who has been indicted for money laundering by the FBI is due in court. Garret Graff, former Politico Magazine editor and the author of The Threat Matrix, tells us what to expect on Tuesday.

Experts believe gambling addiction is on the rise everywhere. While Las Vegas may be synonymous with gambling, The Economist reports that the country where people rack up the biggest gambling losses is Australia. This is down to so-called 'pokies', electronic poker machines. Australia has more of these machines than any other country. The BBC's Phil Mercer reports.

Roger Hearing presents and is joined by Madhavan Narayanan, the journalist and writer - who's in Delhi, and Nancy Koehn, Harvard historian, author of the book Forged in Crisis, in Boston.

(Photo: A rescue ship works to extinguish the fire on the burning Iranian oil tanker Sanchi in the East China Sea, 2018. Credit: Shanghai Maritime Search and Rescue Centre/China Daily/Reuters)

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