On Thursday 24 September, WWF-Australia and a team of independent marine ecologists left Darwin on a chartered research expedition to survey the damage. Dr Gilly Llewellyn, WWF-Australia’s Conservation Director led the team of researchers who assessed the number of wildlife found in the marine region, and their condition. “We need to shatter the myth that an oil spill only affects marine wildlife when it washes up on our beaches,” said Dr Gilly Llewellyn.
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This is an appalling and catastrophic disaster harming our most precious natural environment. How can this destruction be allowed to continue? What is being done to prevent the escalation of the spill? What failure occurred to let this happen in the first place?
re the oil spill of WA’s Kimberley coast, an article appeared in the West Australian newspaper of 21/11/09 - a US Government official has said the Montara well that caused the big Timor Sea oil spill would not have been approved in America.
I mentioned this to a couple of friends and we agreed - so much for all the safety and claims of best world practice.