"AMMAN - The United Nations will launch a $144 million appeal on Wednesday for an operation to offload a million barrels of crude oil from a tanker stranded off the coast of war-torn Yemen for years which threatens a major environmental disaster.
David Gressly, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said he hoped a donors conference held with the support of Netherlands in the Hague would quickly mobilise funds to avert a catastrophe on the Red Sea coast and its region.
He told Reuters the amount they were looking to raise was low "compared to the potential impact of a spill that would be catastrophic. It would cost $20 billion to clean it up."
The Safer has been stranded off Yemen's oil terminal of Ras Issa since 2015, and U.N. officials have warned it could leak four times as much oil as spilled during the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster off Alaska."
Suleiman Al-Khalidi reports for Reuters May 10, 2022.
SEE ALSO:
"UN Says 'Imminent' Yemen Oil Spill Would Cost $20 Bn To Clean Up" (Phys.org)
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