News: 20 years on from Braer oil spill and we're still addicted to fossil fuels

05 January 2013

20 years ago (5 January 1993), the Braer oil tanker crashed onto the rocky shore of Shetland, spilling its contents of 85,000 tonnes of crude oil into the open sea. At the time it was the 11th largest oil spill worldwide.

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