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Attacks On Saudi Oil Plant Carry Heavy Environmental Cost
Resume![Emerging flaring of gas at the Shedgum Gas Plant, Saudi Arabia, captured by the Sentinel-2 satellite in September 2019. (Photo credit: European Space Agency)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Sentinel-2-L1C-image-on-2019-09-17-1000x436.jpg)
The attacks on the Saudi oil installations last weekend are just the latest example of a country's oil industry or infrastructure being targeted.
Here & Now's Tonya Mosley talks with Wim Zwijnenburg (@wammezz), a Dutch researcher with the peace nonprofit Pax who says attacks on oil facilities can have disastrous environmental consequences.
This segment aired on September 19, 2019.