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The Sea Empress Disaster: Remembering the catastrophe 29 years on

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IT WAS exactly 29 years ago. On the evening of February 15, 1996, at approximately 8:07pm, the oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground on rocks near St. Ann’s Head at the entrance to the Milford Haven Waterway in Pembrokeshire. The vessel, en route to the Texaco oil refinery in Milford Haven, was carrying over 130,000 tonnes of Forties blend crude oil. The incident led to one of Britain’s worst environmental disasters. A catastrophic collision As th…

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Remembering the Sea Empress disaster

Exactly one year to today (Saturday, February 15), it will be 30 years since the Sea Empress disaster in Milford Haven, the worst oil accident in Welsh history, and some of the local activists who guarded the shores insist there are still lessons to be learned.

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