Romanian and Bulgarian officials continued efforts on Thursday to clean the Danube river of an oil spill produced upstream by a fissure in a Serbian pipeline. While the Government in Bucharest said it would support Sofia urgently to stop the spill in the Bulgarian sector of the Danube, anti-pollution barrages were installed along the river to protect settlements in South-East Romania.
The Bulgarian Environment Ministry was quoted by AFP on Thursday as saying Romania and Bulgaria were planning to demand Serbian compensations over the environmental damage produced by the Tuesday spill.
Romania said it was offering Bulgaria materials worth 50,000 euro as an efficient intervention to contain the polluting flow can only be done from the Bulgarian banks of the river.
