The Local.it | Riviera beaches spared as Italy oil slick dissolves The Local.it The oil slicks formed after an April 17th pipeline leak at an ageing refinery near Genoa which resulted in 680,000 litres of crude spilling into the Polcevera river, which flows into the Mediterranean at Genoa. "It was not a disaster but this was a ... Italy monitoring oil slick off Riviera Emergency declared after oil spill in Mediterranean Med oil slick 'under control' |