Oil leak in northern Iraq pipeline polluting Tigris river

[Barrett808]

TIKRIT, Iraq (AFP) - Oil engineers were plugging a leak in a northern Iraq (news - web sites) pipeline which is polluting the Tigris river, one of the country's main sources of water, a US military spokeswoman said.

"There is a leak unfortunately, right where it crosses over the river, north of Baiji," the main refinery town for Iraq's northern oil fields, said Major Josslyn Aberle from the 4th Infantry Division that patrols the area.

She said a faulty weld in the pipeline was causing oil to spill into the Tigris at the Fathah bridge. Large black plates of oil could be seen flowing in the muddy waters of the river, dozens of miles (kilometres) downstream.

"The North Oil Company has put up a float barrier to try to contain the leak but some of the oil is seeping through the barrier," Aberle said.

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[indepat]

1. Wonder what Halliburton will get paid to fix that leak?

[daleo]

2. A faulty weld, eh?

I wonder how it got 'faulty'.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Just the river that is the cradle of man.... not important, move along

nothing to see here.

[diamond14]

4. photos of bush* complete Iraq failure...disgusting.....

Free at last, free at last...thank God almighty, free at last...



Iraqi water tankers collect water from the Tigris river as large black plates of oil flow on the muddy water of the river in Tikrit. Oil engineers were plugging a leak in a pipeline in northern Iraq (news - web sites) which is polluting the river.(AFP/Jewel Samad)





Relatives sit near a coffin containing the remains of Gabriel T. Palacios in Mateares, January 31, 2004. Palacios, a Nicaraguan-born soldier in the U.S. Army, was killed on January 21 in Baquba, northern Iraq (news - web sites). REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas



Mourners for U.S. Army Spc. Gabriel T Palacios, 22, cry during his funeral at his home in Mateares, Nicaragua, 30 miles west of Managua Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004.

[Sagan]

5. welcome to life in a Bush satrapy

Oil in the water is just the beginning.