Torrey Canyon quarry claims another victim
Tuesday 22nd March 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
GSPCA animal collection officer Geoff George with one of the two ducks which survived being soaked in oil from the Torrey Canyon quarry. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1112690)
OIL in the Torrey Canyon quarry has claimed its latest bird victim, a duck, just after the 44th anniversary of the tanker disaster.
The oil was placed in the Chouet headland quarry as a short-term measure in 1967, but little had been done with it until recently.
Over the last three years the Public Services Department has used a bio-remediation technique to break down the oil.
But GSPCA animal collection officer Geoff George said it was still having a devastating effect on wildlife.
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