Chris,
The worst part about this disaster is that there are no facilities to
handle oil spills in CI. The only positive, is that bunker oil tends
to clump, rather than form a slick. This makes it somewhat easier to
clean up. It still makes a mess of the shoreline and is harder to
clean off affected animals.
Why the ship was allowed to dock during the sea conditions there at
the moment is somewhat incomprehensible and shows a lack of inwit on
some ones part.
Carl Clifford
On 09/01/2012, at 10:25 PM, Chris Gregory wrote:
Bad news from CI.
The highly damaging heavy bunker oil leaking from the ship will have a
"disastrous" environmental impact on threatened sea birds and the coral
band that rings the island, Dr Nic Dunlop, an environmental scientist
with
The Conservation Council of WA who specialises in sea birds, has warned.
Most at risk are sea bird populations that breed on Christmas Island
such
as the Brown Booby and Brown Noddy, Abbotts Booby and Frigate Bird.
The rare Abbott’s Booby does not breed anywhere else in the world, Dr
Dunlop said.
There are populations of about 1000 to 2000 of these threatened
species on
the island.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/12534246/christmas-island-container-ship-breaks-in-half/
Chris Gregory
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