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China battles large oil slick

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Oil coats a boat rope on July 18, 2010 after a huge spill following the fire at the port in Dalian, China. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)​
 
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A Greenpeace activist surveys the damage of the oil spill at Dalian's port on July 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Jiang He/Greenpeace)​
 
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This photo released by Greenpeace shows oil washing ashore near the port of Dalian, China on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)​
 
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An aerial photo, released by China's Xinhua news agency on July 17, 2010, shows an oil slick floating off the coast of Dalian, China. Efforts were under way to contain and clean up a large oil slick after pipeline explosions at the northeastern Chinese port sent greasy black plumes into the ocean, state media reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Tian Jingyue)​
 
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People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers place protective booms to control the spread of leaked crude oil at a beach in Dalian, China on July 21, 2010. Dalian's Xingang oil port has resumed some loadings for refined fuel for the domestic market, but fuel exports remain temporarily halted, industry officials said, as the oil spill clean-up is still under way. (REUTERS/Stringer)​
 
Cleaning Dalian harbor
The oil spill resulting from a pipeline explosion in the port city of Dalian on July 16th is being cleaned up by a small army of fisherman, locals, and government workers manning over 250 oil-skimming vessels and 8,000 fishing boats - much of the work being done by hand. The spill, now contained according to authorities, grew to 430 square kilometers (165 sq mi), but was prevented from fouling international waters. The explosion was due to improper desulfurizer injections into the pipeline, according to a report by Xinhua, China's state news agency. As workers continue their efforts and watchdog groups like Greenpeace level criticism for what they call an inadequate response to date, Dalian Port has already resumed operations at two of its oil berths, the company said on Sunday.

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A worker cleans up oil at the oil spill site in the port near Dalian, China on July 23, 2010. Fuel exports remain temporarily halted, industry officials said amid continuing efforts to clean up an oil spill at the country's major port of Dalian. (REUTERS/Stringer)​
 
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A fisherman cleans up oil, placing oiled material into barrels near Dalian, China on July 23, 2010. (REUTERS/Jiang He/Greenpeace)​
 
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A worker paddles his boat as he cleans up oil at an oil spill site near Dalian Port, China on July 27, 2010. (REUTERS/Stringer)​
 
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A fisherman scrapes his hands across the top of a barrel while cleaning part of an oil spill site in Dalian, China on July 23, 2010. (REUTERS/Jiang He/Greenpeace)​
 
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Local fisherman scoop spilled oil from the surface of the water at the fishing village of Nantuo in Dalian, China on July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Jiang He)​
 
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Local fishermen rest near pods of retrieved oil as they clean up oil which has spread far from the original explosion site in Xingang port, Dalian, northeastern China on July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Jiang He)​
 
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A local fisherman works to clean up oil spilled into Dalian port in northeastern China on July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Jiang He)​
 
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A fisherman works aboard a boat floating in an oil-covered port in Dalian, China on July 23, 2010. (REUTERS/Jiang He/Greenpeace)​
 
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A boat travels through oil sheens from the oil spill site at a fishing port, where oil scooped from the sea is ferried for storing, in Dalian, Liaoning province on July 24, 2010. (REUTERS/Arthur JD/Greenpeace)​
 
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Local fishermen ferry recovered oil from the spill site at Dayugou port in Dalian, Liaoning province July 25, 2010. (REUTERS/Stringer)
 
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Local fishermen work to haul recovered oil in barrels near Xingang port, Dalian, northeastern China on July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Jiang He)​
 
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A worker arranges containers filled with oil cleaned up from the oil spill site at Beilianggang port in Dalian, Liaoning province July 24, 2010. (REUTERS/Stringer)​
 
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14A man walks past barrels of oil scooped from the sea in Dalian, China on July 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Arthur JD)
 
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An oil-covered fisherman rests next to containers filled with oil cleaned up from the spill site at a port in Dalian, Liaoning province July 25, 2010. (REUTERS/Stringer)​
 
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Fishermen scoop oil from the spill site in Dalian, Liaoning province, China on July 25, 2010. (REUTERS/Arthur JD/Greenpeace)​
 
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