Stranded ship "time bomb" to Great Barrier Reef
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100405/ts_nm/us_australia_ship
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – A stranded Chinese coal ship leaking oil onto Australia's Great Barrier Reef is an environmental time bomb with the potential to devastate large protected areas of the reef, activists said on Monday.
The ship was a "ticking environmental time bomb," Gilly Llewellyn, director of conservation for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Australia, told Reuters.
She said this was the third major international incident involving its owners in four years.
NY Times coverage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/science/earth/05reef.html
The ship was a "ticking environmental time bomb," Gilly Llewellyn, director of conservation for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Australia, told Reuters.
She said this was the third major international incident involving its owners in four years.
NY Times coverage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/science/earth/05reef.html
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Wetdog
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We do not need coal or petroleum.
We can do anything we do with coal or petroleum with methane and biofuels. And we can do it better, cleaner and cheaper.
And we can make all the methane and biofuels we need.
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Wetdog
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JanforGore
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Where is the RESPECT? This is a World Heritage Site for a reason! Get these ships out of there!
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JanforGore
