Nearly 5 percent of the world’s total oil consumption now passes through the Great Belt and the Øresund. The massive increase is straining safety measures and raising the risk of devastating pollution, the warning goes.
When Peer Henrik Hansen looks out over the water off Langeland’s coast, something has changed. There is »a lot of traffic out there,« as he puts it.
Tanker after tanker slides along the horizon. From shore, Peer Henrik Hansen, the director of the Langeland Museum and a Cold War researcher, cannot see where the ships are coming from or where they are headed.
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