Kiwi Farms

To make things simple: Two weeks ago, a Japanese ore hauler end up beached on the Mauritius' south-east coast. The Mauritian government, true to his reputation of corruption and slowness, waited twelve days before reacting.

Second Edit : I've fucked up my initial reading, the ship is a ore hauler, not a tanker and I am dumb.

Now the boat threatens to break, and spill 4000 tons of oil. The economical consequences are quite hard to fathom: Tourism is the major industry of Mauritius, and the entire surrounding region also relies on tourism, more or less.

White sands beaches are quite the attraction there, and oil mucking it up would be less than great..

Ecologically, you have at least two coral barriers in range of the tanker, a lot of fishes, and other little details.

Politically, Mauritius has gone and asked France for help ( Reunion Island being a French region, and being the closest island to Mauritius )

Edit: I forgot to add that they also asked help from the U.N. I stand corrected, my bad.

Both sides are trying to be reassuring, Mauritians claiming that all is under control, French claiming that they will not be affected even if the oil spills ( An old tradition: any natural disaster will always dodge French lands)

WaPo tries to cover it:



Asia Argento's old date and France's premiere woke journalist Hugo Clement has some nice images of the tanker, that I'll borrow.





I'll try to keep an eye on this.