Attempts to reduce the waste being dumped into the Baltic have so far failed to stop the growth of the dead zone, now equivalent to around one and half times the size of Denmark.
The resource estimate signalled the Revenue Zone holds a total of 3.7 million gold equivalent ounces at a grade of 1.1 grams per ton gold equivalent ounces.
Then, having struck a deal with the rest of the euro zone a deal in which, it should be remembered, Cyprus was to receive a loan equivalent to an eye-watering 60% of its GDP in a clear display of solidarity he allowed his own party to repudiate it.