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Photos of the Rena environmental disaster off the Bay of Plenty coast when the cargo ship ended up on the Astrolabe Reef spilling oil.
The first few were shot by the Defence Force flying over:
Rena on reef |NZDF
Rena on reef |NZDF
Rena on reef |NZDF
Rena on reef |NZDF
Oil on the beach | Gemz Photography
Container washed onshore | Greenpeace
Hundreds of dead oiled birds lie on the shoreline | Gemz Photography
Cleanup on Papamoa Beach. |MNZ
Rena cleanup volunteer Rona Marie Otene | MNZ
Maritime emergency centre
Numbers refer to water depth under and around Rena | Maritime NZ
Rena this morning | NZDF
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I hope this puts the nail in the coffin for any govt thoughts to continue to let Petrobras look for oil!
The two are completely unrealated.
Not necessarily - it creates *reasonable* worries that we don’t have the “heavy lifting” required to deal with a large oil spill, or similar maritime emergency (remember that the US, - right off a coast just bristling with oil industry assets - took months to fix a major disaster of theirs).
So not irrelevant at all - though of course both sides of the drilling equation will tend to overstate the risk / the safety for the sake of their own argument.