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Extreme Bilge Dumping, Angola

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UPDATE: We figured out who the culprit was! Read all about how we identified the guilty party- FROM SPACE: June 22, 2012: Bilge Dumping? Busted using Satellite Images Original Story: We’ve been collecting quite a number of images showing the ongoing problem of bilge dumping across the globe and here is one that really catches the eye. This […]

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Bilge Dumping off Vietnam – February 22, 2012

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We’ve posted about bilge dumping before – the practice of flushing the oily slop out of your vessel, straight into the ocean.  It’s illegal in a lot of places, but it is very hard to enforce.  SkyTruth’s daily offshore monitoring program just caught this fine (awful?) example of bilge dumping off the coast of Vietnam, […]

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