San Vicente do mar, Galicia, Spain 12.2002
©2002 Manuel Bauer / Agentur-Focus

„Nunca Mais“, The „Prestige“ Oil Spill in Galicia, Spain

The oil filled buckets are carried by human-chains up to the next road, where trucks bring the toxic charge into a former gravel pit (sealed up temporarily only with plastics to protect the groundwater). Eventually, they say, the oil will be converted into asphalt.