China Probes ConocoPhillips Over Oil Spill
source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-oil-spill-long-term-impact-report-062238438.html
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China said Tuesday it was investigating US oil giant ConocoPhillips' role in a spill off its eastern coast that authorities kept hidden from the public for nearly a month.
ConocoPhillips's China unit in a partnership with the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) operates the oil field in Bohai Bay, where the spill was detected on June 4 but only made public on Friday.
An area measuring 840 square kilometres (336 square miles) had been badly polluted due to the spill, the statement said.
Li said oil had seriously contaminated ocean waters, with the quality of water in the spill area now at the worst level on the administration's four-grade pollution scale.
Dead seaweed and rotting fish could be seen in waters around Nanhuangcheng Island in Shandong province near the site of an oil spill, the China Daily said.
"The environmental impact caused by the oil leak is long-term," the newspaper quoted a local fisheries association official as saying.
Nanhuangcheng Island is about 75 kilometres (45 miles) from the offshore oil field in Bohai Bay where the leak happened.
CNOOC tried to stem anger over its failure to warn the public about the spill, saying government authorities were aware of the incident from the start.
"We reported the spills to authorities soon after they took place and treatment of the spills is under supervision," CNOOC spokesman Jiang Yongzhi was quoted as telling the Global Times.
ConocoPhillips's China unit in a partnership with the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) operates the oil field in Bohai Bay, where the spill was detected on June 4 but only made public on Friday.
An area measuring 840 square kilometres (336 square miles) had been badly polluted due to the spill, the statement said.
Li said oil had seriously contaminated ocean waters, with the quality of water in the spill area now at the worst level on the administration's four-grade pollution scale.
Dead seaweed and rotting fish could be seen in waters around Nanhuangcheng Island in Shandong province near the site of an oil spill, the China Daily said.
"The environmental impact caused by the oil leak is long-term," the newspaper quoted a local fisheries association official as saying.
Nanhuangcheng Island is about 75 kilometres (45 miles) from the offshore oil field in Bohai Bay where the leak happened.
CNOOC tried to stem anger over its failure to warn the public about the spill, saying government authorities were aware of the incident from the start.
"We reported the spills to authorities soon after they took place and treatment of the spills is under supervision," CNOOC spokesman Jiang Yongzhi was quoted as telling the Global Times.
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Wetdog
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The Chinese government did not even announce this publically----it was brought to light when a member of the public posted information about oil, dead fish and rotting seaweed washing up on shore.
The government had intended to keep this secret from the public. Makes it kind of hard to believe that the government is going to do anything at all about it if you ask me.
It appears to me that corporate buy offs work even better in China than they do in the Gulf of Mexico.
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