On the news tonight there was vision of a clean-up starting, though it
looked a bit under resourced, but then again there is a lot of
coastline to clean and i imagine that there are not that many people
trained to do this type of work and you can't go at it hammer and
tongs to do it properly. Look how long it has taken to clean up the
Exon Valdez spill fully.
The QLD. government seems to be in charge.
How much? All I hope.
Who will pay? Hopefully the ship owners, but being Hong Kong based I
would not hold my breath on that. The QLD/Federal Gov can arrest the
ship and then if payment for the clean-up is not forth-coming, sell
the ship. I don't know how much an 18 year old 25,00 Tonne tramp
container ship will bring, but I imagine no where near enough to pay
for the clean-up, so I guess the QLD taxpayer will wear a good of it.
I imagine that the QLD government will be trying to do a good job on
the clean-up, seeing as there is an election just round the corner.
An equally important problem, which has not attracted enough
attention, in my opinion, is what to do about the 35 or so containers
of ammonium nitrate? With at least 650 Tonnes of a high potency
fertiliser being dumped into a fairly small volume of sea would have a
rather disastrous effect on the marine ecosystem.
The whole event may very well averted if the Federal Government had
not allowed foreign shipping to take over our coastal shipping. The
action of the Pacific Adventurer's captain during the whole debacle is
a great example of the adage "if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys"
Carl Clifford
PS I just heard on the ABC news , that the Pacific Adventurer is now
spilling into the Brisbane River. I the the vessel should be re-
christened the Pacific Mis-Adventurer.
On 13/03/2009, at 6:08 PM, Sis Ticolar wrote:
And what if anything is being done to cleanup this mess?
Who is to clean it up?
How much will they clean up?
Who pays?
Sis.
Ian May wrote: ===================
This morning it was announced that the "Pacific Adventurer" was carrying
more than 1/2 million litres of oil when its tanks were pierced.
See http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/13/2515278.htm?section=justin
Have seen some footage showing an oil affected godwit in breeding
plumage. Are there any updates on bird impacts affecting migratory
waders from this disaster?
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