Sometime during the evening of Saturday, March 22, pipes from the Holcim cement factory in Chekka began leaking oil into the Mediterranean. Between one and two tons of oil entered the sea in the industrial area of Koura, just south of Tripoli. Holcim teams worked through the Easter holiday to clean the spill, and by Monday morning, the beach and the sea that were immediately contaminated in Chekka was cleaned. Holcim, the NGO IndyAct and local residents all agree on the chronology of the oil spill and subsequent cleaning in Chekka. Yet that same weekend, residents of Anfeh, a fishing village a few kilometers north of Chekka, discovered a huge amount of oil had spilled onto their beaches, only two months after local teams with international support finished cleaning the remains of the 2006 War’s oil spill. Well over a month has passed, the beaches of Anfeh remain covered in
