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Photos demonstrate extent of oil catastrophe in Lebanon

Top left photo July 2006, all other photos August 2006

Jiyeh power plant, burning after being bombed
Above: Jiyeh power plant, burning after being bombed
Copyright Raoul Kramer

Ramlet al-Bayda Beach, Beirut, Lebanon
Above: Ramlet al-Bayda Beach, Beirut

"Asphalted" sea bed off Jiyyeh, Lebanon
Above: "Asphalted" sea bed off Jiyyeh, Lebanon
Copyright Mohammed Sarji, Greenpeace

Oily seabed with dead fish off Jiyyeh, Lebanon
Above: Oily seabed and dead fish off Jiyyeh, Lebanon Copyright Mohammed Sarji, Greenpeace

Ramlet al-Bayda Beach, Beirut, Lebanon
Above: Ramlet al-Bayda Beach, Beirut

Ramlet al-Bayda Beach, Beirut, Lebanon
Above: Ramlet al-Bayda Beach, Beirut

Clean up by Lebanese NGO Green Line, Ramlet Bayda Beach, Beirut
Above: Clean up by Lebanese NGO Green Line, Ramlet al- Bayda Beach, Beirut

Clean up by Lebanese NGO Green Line, Ramlet Bayda Beaqh, Beirut
Above: Clean up by Lebanese NGO Green Line, Ramlet al-Bayda Beach, Beirut

   
Byblos Port, Lebanon
Above: Byblos Port

Byblos Port, Lebanon
Above: Byblos Port

Edde Beach, Lebanon: "The beach is your's - protect it"
Above: Edde Beach
(the sign reads "The beach is your's - protect it")

Jbeil Beach, Lebanon
Above: Jbeil Beach

Edde Beach, Lebanon
Above: Edde Beach

Raouche Beach, Beirut, Lebanon
Above: Raouche Beach

Edde Beach, Lebanon
Above: Edde Beach

   

 


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