Baltic Sea pollution hotspots cut by half

Eighty-two of the 163 biggest pollution sources around the Baltic Sea have now been cleaned up regional protection commission Helcom announced at a meeting in Vilnius,  Lithuania, on Thursday. The milestone was reached when the meeting approved the removal of another 17 "hotspots" from a pollution priority list first drawn up in 1992.

The latest removals comprise industrial plants and municipalities in Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia. In 2002, halfway to the 2012 deadline for completion, 51 of 132 then-known hotspots had been tackled (EED 21/11/02 http://www.endseuropedaily.com/13343).

See press release http://www.helcom.fi/press_office/news_helcom/en_GB/HODs19HotSpots/.

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