"Who had 'Abandoned Oil Tanker' in August?"

[George K]

https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/16/un-official-warns-oil-tanker-spill-inger-andersen/

United Nations Executive Director Inger Andersen warned the U.N. Security Council Thursday that a spill from an abandoned oil tanker in Yemen could produce a “catastrophe.”

In her briefing given to the U.N. Security Council Thursday, Andersen stated that a spill from the FSO Safer, an oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen carrying 1.1 million barrels of crude oil, could produce a crisis four times as devastating as the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.

[Mik]

That's in Yemen. Fuck'em.

[Loki]

How did it get there and who owns it. I guess that is not germane to the article.

[Mik]

Silly Loki. That would be news.

[Catseye3]

Yeah, but it seems like a toweringly obvious omission. It's like the omission is itself news.

[Mik]

That could well be.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/07/1068461

"The condition of the aging vessel, FSO Safer – officially owned by the Government of Yemen, but controlled since 2015 by Houthi rebels - is deteriorating daily, upping the risk of an oil spill that would wreck ecosystems and livelihoods for decades, said United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) chief, Inger Andersen."