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Greenpeace International  Obvious lesson not learned in latest
oil tanker spill  Feature story - October 8, 2002 How the
explosion on the Limburg oil tanker happened is still being
debated, but the results are indisputable. The explosion that
ripped through the double hulled oil tanker late Sunday produced
a gapping hole that spilled as much as 8,000 tonnes of crude oil
producing slicks that are visible from the coast of Yemen.  File
photo: Greenpeace survey of oil pollution from a spill in
Alaska.  The French company that owns the essel, and the French
government, say it was a terrorist attack, the Yemen authorities
say there was a fire first, which caused the explosion. No one
knows for sure. The latest reports from journalists who have
been taken to see the Limburg suggest that the explosion came
from within the tanker.  But there is an obvious point that's
getting lost in the debate. Tragedies like this one are an
inevitable price paid for a world