Message-ID: <35821D2A.3D9A@ns.sympatico.ca> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 23:33:14 -0700 From: Kerry Miller <mailto:kerryo@NS.SYMPATICO.CA> Subject: SOS: Environmental Disaster in Pakistan (fwd To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
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> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 17:43:27 +0500
> From: Postmaster Islamabad <mailto:root@sdnpk.undp.org>
> Subject: SOS: Environmental Disaster in Pakistan
>
> Here is an appeal from IUCN, Pakistan. Please forward it to all
> possible
> sources from which help can be attained.
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> There has been a major oil spill coming from a medium sized oil tanker 'MV
> Yashika-6' sinking 70 km off Pasni Coast in Pakistan. The spill has now
> spread over 35 km area causing massive fish kill and severe damage to
> other marine life forms.
>
> The Marine Pollution Control Board Secretariat, Pakistan, has approached
> IUCN with a request for dispersants to dissipate this spill. The present
> stock of dispersants is insufficient to cover even a couple of kilometers
> of spill. We have advised the Board to save it for any emergency arising
> in the harbor area and near sensitive installations.
>
> To combat the spreading spill which is drifting towards the coast at about
> 1-2 nautical mile an hour, threatening the largest mangrove forests of
> Balochistan on Sonmiani Bay, we need 10,000 litres of dispersants (Glycol
> Ether or a better product). We appeal you to arrange whatever amount you
> can (ports in many countries should have its stock). If we get a
> confirmation, then we can ask the Government of Pakistan to airlift it
> using PIA or military aircraft as needed.
>
> Please either write to this email address (mailto:root@sdnpk.undp.org) or
> directly contact:
>
> Dr. Parvaiz Naim,
> Director, Environmental Assessment Services (EAS) Unit
> IUCN,
> 1 Bath Island,
> Karachi, PAKISTAN.
> Phone: 92-21-5871540-3 Fax: 92-21-5870287
>
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> -The Postmaster
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> Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP),
> Phone:051-270684,270691
> PO Box 3099, House 12, Street 85, G-6/4, Fax: 051-270688
> Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
> email:mailto:root@sdnpk.undp.org
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> <<SDNP is managed by IUCN in Pakistan.>>
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