Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:07 am, October 8th, 2011 - 15 comments
Categories: disaster, Environment, Gerry Brownlee, Steven Joyce
Tags: nick smith, oil spill, Rena
…prepared to manage a big oil spill. Gerry Brownlee promising …can" to prevent a spill simply doesn't cut it…. environmental damage from the spill will get worse before…Joyce said. And the spill is taking its toll … Nick Smith said the spill from the ship "had…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:08 am, April 30th, 2015 - 58 comments
Categories: Conservation, water
Tags: deepsea oil, oil spill, tauranga
… oil spill: Leaked oil in Tauranga Harbour came from Mobil pipeline Heavy fuel oil spilled… the leak that led to oil being spilled into Tauranga Habour came… wharf. Video coverage: Thick, black oil spilled in Tauranga Harbour A small…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 11:19 am, June 14th, 2010 - 19 comments
Categories: Economy, Environment
Tags: gerry brownlee, oil spill
The Deep Horizon oil spill drags on and… spill to happen – it's a waste of its oil …ever had a spill. The current spill, contrary to constant…for a large scale spills: "the oil spill management system that …oil companies don't know how to plug a deep sea spill…
Written By: r0b - Date published: 8:53 am, May 7th, 2010 - 13 comments
Categories: Environment, International
Tags: environmental disaster, oil spill, peak oil
… the largest oil spill in history. This oil spill 'the bad …WASHINGTON What makes an oil spill really bad? Most of…finally happened." Sierra Club: "Oil spill is America's Chernobyl" GULFPORT,…new drilling", "Deepwater Horizon oil spill sparks calls for $10bn…
Written By: r0b - Date published: 7:15 am, April 12th, 2011 - 138 comments
Categories: disaster, economy, energy, john key, Mining
Tags: deep water horizon, deepsea oil, oil spill, petrobras
…. "Key slams Greenpeace anti-oil protests" was the original headline…said the environmental campaigners disrupting oil exploration off the East …disaster if there is an oil spill. Key assures us that the…in the case of a spill like the recent Deepwater …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 11:29 am, October 13th, 2011 - 30 comments
Categories: disaster, Mining
Tags: deep water horizon, oil spill, Rena
… environmental risks of National's deepsea oil drilling plans. Yes, they're not… same thing. In fact, an oil spill from a drilling platform or… hell of a lot more oil involved. Fancy taking a risk…
Written By: r0b - Date published: 7:47 am, June 3rd, 2010 - 39 comments
Categories: Environment, greens, International, Mining
Tags: gerry brownlee, gulf oil spill, petrobras
… do all to prevent oil spill here The government will … New Zealand following the oil spill in the Gulf of … sense of the Gulf spill in an NZ context,… graphic of the current spill superimposed on NZ is… similar spill in 1979 shows how little the oil industry …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:30 am, July 6th, 2010 - 12 comments
Categories: Mining
Tags: big oil, gerry brownlee, MED, oil spill
…to handle diesel spills – not gaping breaches into oil and gas domes…Valdez went aground and spilled its load, oil seepage is still visible…captain oil tanker who on one dark night in 1989, spilled his…the wake of the Alaskan oil spill, Exxon-Mobil did pay an…
Written By: susannact - Date published: 2:59 pm, December 3rd, 2013 - 38 comments
Categories: climate change, disaster, Environment, global warming, humour, Mining, Satire, transport
Tags:
…the event of a major oil spill. The documents, obtained …” possibility of a major oil spill, a pre-planned speech …implicate them in the oil spill. It also includes a…up for with this oil spill. We are a fair… furthest away from the spill. We attempted to call…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:35 pm, October 15th, 2011 - 82 comments
Categories: disaster
Tags: oil spill, Rena
… needed to deal with a spill and, second, was the…of the 100 tonnes that spilled. Despite the severe damage …levels. It derails the government's oil drilling agenda. Its reputation …the capacity to deal with oil spills properly (Armstrong is an extraordinary…
Written By: r0b - Date published: 9:58 am, April 24th, 2011 - 34 comments
Categories: business, disaster, Media
Tags: BP, corporate media, gulf oil spill
… into impact of Gulf oil spill Documents obtained under the … that the politics of oil spill science was not confined … what has happened to the spilled oil. … … Kert Davies, Greenpeace …"news" relating to the spill. Greenpeace obtained these documents …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 8:14 am, May 30th, 2010 - 38 comments
Categories: Conservation, energy, International
Tags: big oil, oil spill
…. Millions of barrels of oil are spilled, jettisoned or wasted every…, Shell and most other oil companies together face hundreds of…real costs of extracting the oil. If the developing world… make the industry accountable. Oil prices would rise, consumption …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:30 am, June 22nd, 2010 - 14 comments
Categories: Mining
Tags: deep water horizion, gerry brownlee, maritime NZ, oil spill
… the chasm between the oil industry's assertions about the…$12 million worth of oil spill recovery equipment and dispersing chemicals…preventers. BP and other oil companies helped finance a … to clean up the oil spill and compensate affected industries….
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 12:50 pm, October 12th, 2011 - 184 comments
Categories: disaster
Tags: oil spill, Rena
…were found, covered in oil. An oiled wildlife response team was …. Saturday, October 8 -Fresh oil is spotted leaking from the…more than 100-member strong oil spill response team led by MNZ… the water to collect oil. The oiled wildlife response is continuing…
Written By: James Henderson - Date published: 9:35 am, October 23rd, 2013 - 47 comments
Categories: disaster, Mining
Tags:
… happen if a major oil well blowout (like Deepwater… dramatic size that a spill could reach, affecting beaches…I'm writing this, some oil industry spin doctor is …And there's never been a oil spill here, well yes there …risk to get hold of oil – a major cause …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 9:50 am, October 8th, 2011 - 71 comments
Categories: disaster, Environment, water
Tags: maritime NZ, oil spill, Rena
… Collapsible rapid response emergency oil barges made to deal …in Australia. These collapsable oil barges are specifically designed and… the case of an oil spill or pending disaster to offload…being deployed to unload the oil before the weather deteriorates?…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:15 pm, October 14th, 2011 - 20 comments
Categories: cartoons, disaster, humour, Satire
Tags: deepsea oil, oil spill, Rena
… are we wanting to put oil spill control for all of the… they can handle a small oil spill.
Written By: weka - Date published: 9:10 am, September 18th, 2017 - 211 comments
Categories: climate change, disaster, Economy, energy, Environment, peak oil, sustainability, transport
Tags: auckland, fuel crisis
…com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/909281656980127745 Peak Oil theory is an analysis … of climate change, peak oil and the consequences of neoliberalism… that RNZ interviewed the oil company boss for ten minutes…also cannot afford a major oil spill. So often NZ gets …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 9:25 am, October 9th, 2011 - 60 comments
Categories: disaster, transport
Tags: oil spill, Rena
National's handling of the Rena oil spill is fitting into the same …
Written By: Jenny Michie - Date published: 1:21 pm, October 19th, 2011 - 7 comments
Categories: disaster, humour
Tags: clarke and dawe, oil spill, Rena
… And again on the Gulf oil spill: http://www.youtube.com/watch…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:24 am, February 22nd, 2021 - 6 comments
Categories: climate change, Mining
Tags: deep sea oil drilling, greenpeace
… the announcement that New Zealand Oil & Gas and its partner…Beach Energy will relinquish their oil and gas exploration permit … the risk of a catastrophic oil spill,” says Greenpeace Campaigner, Amanda…. “Burning dirty fuels like oil, gas and coal is causing…
Written By: karol - Date published: 12:25 pm, May 2nd, 2013 - 18 comments
Categories: accountability, capitalism, Conservation, disaster, john key, Metiria Turei, overseas investment, slippery, sustainability, trade
Tags: big oil
… in Gulf of Mexico oil spill[/caption] Gordon Campbell's excellent… shareholders over the BP oil spill, in which they provide… Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and that oil companies had excellent …and provisions for cleaning up oil spills. The evidence presented …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:58 am, November 19th, 2013 - 98 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, climate change, Conservation, Economy, energy
Tags:
… the profits are all the oil companies'," Buck said. New … deal with a deep-sea oil spill. If one occurred, it …to ensure that risks of oil spills and other discharges are minimised…totally inadequate. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of New…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 10:07 am, October 21st, 2011 - 16 comments
Categories: disaster, Mining, spin
Tags: deepsea oil, Rena, simon bridges
…our lack of preparedness for oil spills and announce deepsea drilling won't…running aground isn't like an oil rig blowing out' just …to believe that a deepsea oil spill presents no danger given how…timeliness to even a moderate spill, you're asking people to …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 2:05 pm, May 13th, 2010 - 11 comments
Categories: Environment, International
Tags: environmental disaster, oil spill, peak oil
…dome failed the oil is still flowing: Gulf oil keeps on …the Gulf of Mexico. Oil continues to spill into the ocean, at…" environmental disaster. The various oil companies involved in the incident…extraction of difficult reserves. Peak oil is here. Time to …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 1:19 pm, October 19th, 2011 - 40 comments
Categories: disaster, Mining, spin, sustainability
Tags: deepsea oil, Rena
…contain even a relatively small oil spill. Dead birds is hardly … destination. Meanwhile, Key visits oiled birds and says they're the… containment valves blow off oil wells kilometres below the sea's…piss-poor capability to handle oil spills. If Key has his …
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:37 am, April 7th, 2014 - 24 comments
Categories: energy, national, same old national
Tags: deepsea oil, gas, local bodies, oil, oil drilling
…so fixated on selling our oil and gas exploration rights. …territorial waters for open slather oil and gas exploration is …capable of managing a serious spill and Anadarko's own response plan…that is being spent subsidising oil corporates ($46 million a year…
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 1:55 pm, October 14th, 2011 - 55 comments
Categories: climate change, Conservation, disaster, Mining, sustainability
Tags: deepsea oil, oil spill
… a moratorium on deepsea oil drilling until it's proven …handling of a relatively small spill. Besides, there's no rush…only extract it once. The oil, if it's there, will…running aground isn't like a oil well blowout'. No, it's… of a lot more oil and is a hell…
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 9:05 pm, July 21st, 2011 - 89 comments
Categories: energy, sustainability
Tags: peak oil
…New Zealand government entitled "Peak Oil – New Zealand's Response". I… attempted to paint peak oil proponents as pessimists who …and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was to blame. Well…five different much touted offshore oil basins, the government's presentation…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:34 am, August 29th, 2013 - 55 comments
Categories: disaster, Environment
Tags: amy adams
…change would see applications by oil giants go through the …on the Minister's desk marked "Oil Industry and sympathetic submissions" … greatest. The Deep Horizon Oil Spill was from an exploratory well… the result of lobbying by oil companies. No doubt these…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:36 am, December 18th, 2013 - 30 comments
Categories: disaster, energy, Environment, Mining, water
Tags: anadarko, deepsea oil, oil spill
… who avoid cleanups. Currently Texan oil cowboys Anadarko are drilling for… oil off the Raglan coast. If …something goes wrong, we get oil on beaches from Kaipara to… a judge ruled that the oil company owes litigants billions due…
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