On Thursday, the Yemeni government announced the allocation of $5 million from Yemen’s environmental budget to help counter the threat posed by the oil tanker “Safer” near the country’s western coast in the Red Sea.
According to the official Yemeni News Agency, Tawfiq Al-Sharsbi, the Yemeni Minister of Water and Environment, made these remarks while taking part in the 33rd session of the Arab Council of Ministers responsible for environmental concerns, which was held in Cairo, the capital of Egypt.
Al-Sharjabi urged the UN to act quickly and forcefully to put its coordinated and emergency plan into action in order to save Safar and stop the potential and obvious environmental catastrophe that the crumbling oil tank may cause.
The Yemeni government is doing everything it can to support and facilitate the efforts of the UN and the international community to save “Safer” and prevent any potential catastrophes that may result from more than a million barrels of oil on the detained carrier, whose severe effects may be reflected not only on Yemen The region is only, but also on the entire world, according to him. He went on to explain that Yemen’s contribution is an extension of those efforts.
He emphasised the significance of coordinated regional and international efforts to increase pressure against the Houthi militia’s coup militia hostilities, which continue to hold Safer oil as a morally repugnant pressure card and cultivate marine and land mines.
The Yemeni Minister of Environment emphasised that in order to achieve this, it is necessary to implore all nations and active organisations to take proactive measures to protect the Red Sea environment in particular as well as the Yemeni environment, which has been depleted by the war and its effects on its natural resources.
It is significant that the UN has a two-stage plan that will cost around 144 million dollars to mitigate the possibility of a huge oil spill from the tanker “Safer”.
The urgent ambulance step, which costs an estimated 80 million dollars, involves moving the oil’s “whistle” to a safer ship.
The United Nations predicts that, excluding the significant negative effects on the environment, the well-being of people, and the economy, the costs of cleaning and processing the pollution brought on by the “Saffer” oil spill will be at least $20 billion.
Safar, a battered oil tanker, is transporting 1. 1 million barrels of crude oil (i.e.
According to a study by Greenpis Research Labs, the oil tanker (which weighs more than 140 thousand tonnes) is anchored 6 miles off the Yemeni shore, and if it explodes or spills, it might result in one of the most deadly oil spill disasters in history.
In order to prevent an environmental catastrophe that is not imminent for the region, the UN repeatedly postponed the visit of its expert team, even as the Yemeni government accused the militia of using the floating tank as “political blackmail” paper after the Houthis withdrew and broke their promises to allow the team to maintain and empty it.
The Yemeni government sets aside $5 million to aid in the “Safer” rescue scheme.
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