Spain Activates Alert As Oil Spill Threatens Canary Islands

By HAROLD HECKLE, Associated Press, San Antonio Express-News: World
Sat, 04/25/2015 - 10:56am

MADRID (AP) — Spain's government activated an environmental emergency alert Saturday over oil slicks that threaten pristine beaches on the southwestern Canary Islands. Greenpeace posted photographs of a dolphin partially coated in oil, while Spanish state television TVE broadcast images of workers cleaning a rocky beach that was stained black with oil.

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