You know this sort of thing sucks its makes me sick, you'd think an enviromental catastrophe like this would have made the news world wide, sadly not, neither did those containers full of hazardous chemicals, floating around the Queensland coast, these big corporations have really got the media sown up it seems..
We have a fairly big oil slick heading for the beautiful Welsh coastline, not that anyone would have known about it.......
Originally Posted by SandStorm
You know this sort of thing sucks its makes me sick, you'd think an enviromental catastrophe like this would have made the news world wide, sadly not, neither did those containers full of hazardous chemicals, floating around the Queensland coast, these big corporations have really got the media sown up it seems..
We have a fairly big oil slick heading for the beautiful Welsh coastline, not that anyone would have known about it.......
Sandstorm, while I was not happy this happened theres no need to tell porkies. Im sitting in Baghdad as we speak and the oil slick was all over the telly on all world news sites for 3 days.
I also wish people would stop talking about Ammonium nitrate being Hazardous materials. It's fertiliser double bagged inside of shipping containers (triple sealed) there will be bugger all leakage. While the cargo will get wet surely and that will ruin it I for one am absolutely certain that the Ammonium nitrate will not do any damage to the environment. I am more concerned about the containers causeing hazards to boaties hitting them.
Cheers
Chris
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Sorry mate I watch and listern to the BBC news daily, and I don't remember hearing anything about an oil slick on the Queensland coast, maybe i'm getting deaf and forgetfull in my old age...............
I also happened to see a snippet on a news broadcast, and heard commentary on ABC radio (along with grabs from other sources) about the widespread coverage the the oil spill was reported throughout the world..in countries like France, USA, Canada, Russia, Spain, Japan, and many more i cant recall accurately.
It was NOT an environmental 'catastrophy'...nor even a disaster. It was a serious incident that should not have occured, and potentially could have been a catastrophy or disaster if the substances involved were more potent then they actually are in the circumstances. This is the same sensationalist reporting that you get when the greenie/PETA and other fanatical preservationist groups drive their agenda through the media (just like our green zones) without proper scientific basis or knowledge.
Ugly and unnecessary damage, aesthetically cleaned up, some immediate collateral damage (and that makes me sad and angry too), but long term environmental damage....not this time...thankfully. Lets hope its the scare that puts the wind up the Pollies and Beaurocrats(sp) to make them prevent similar scenarios occuring in the future. And hang that skipper from the highest yardarm for 1) Sailing into an area affected by a cat 4-5 cyclone, and 2) lieing to the authorities about the extent of the spill.
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Greg
Environmental catastrophe or not, this kind of thing has been going on since we started using oil, its time we put modern technology to use and this kind of thing was resigned to the history books..
One mans catastrophe is another mans, no biggie!, I fish the majority of the time no more than a 3 mile stretch of coast, a few thousand liters of crude oil spilled on my shore would be devastating to me ...........
Just out of interest how many of you guys heard about this? this happend in some of the last unspoilt waters in Europe, the oil is now on the seabed, prime shelfish beds, it never came a shore, never the less it must still have a made a negative impact..
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5753603.ece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Cork_oil_spill
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