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The oil spill that is ravaging the precious ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico, with enormous damage to local economies too, brings to light the tragic problem of oil spills in our seas. An ' emergency world could take alarming proportions in our Mediterranean Sea.

The file created by Legambiente and the Department of Civil Protection reports alarming fact. Every day the waters of the Mediterranean is crossed by ferry 2,000, 1,500 and 2,000 cargo commercial vessels, including 300 tankers (20% of the global maritime oil traffic) carrying each year over 340 million tons of crude oil, as many as 8 million barrels per day. The areas most at risk of accident due to the intense maritime traffic, are the Straits of Gibraltar and of Messina and the Sicilian Channel and the various ports, including Genoa, Livorno, Civitavecchia, Venice and Trieste.

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Legambiente and the Civil Protection Department has also issued the first technical manual devoted to voluntary civil protection intervention in the cleaning of the coast in case of large and small environmental incident at sea involving spills of hydrocarbons. A useful tool for voluntary organizations to organize, train and equip, to be ready to intervene to support authorities in an area of ​​intervention as innovative as cautious.

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