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Deepwater Horizon oil rig sinks, sparking pollution fear

admin /24 April, 2010

 

Deepwater Horizon oil rig sinks, sparking pollution fears

• Crude oil could be spilling into waters off Louisiana coast
• Hopes fade for 11 workers missing after explosion and fire

A deepwater oil platform that burned for more than a day after an explosion has sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as hopes faded of finding 11 missing workers.

The sinking of the Deepwater Horizon could release more than 1,135,600 litres of crude oil a day into the water. The environmental hazards would be greatest if the spill were to reach the Louisiana coast, about 50 miles (80km) away.

Crews searched by air and water for the missing workers, hoping they had managed to reach a lifeboat, but one relative said family members had been told it was unlikely any of the missing had survived Tuesday night’s blast. More than 100 workers escaped the explosion and fire. Four were critically injured.

Carolyn Kemp said her grandson, Roy Wyatt Kemp, 27, was among the missing. He would have been on the drilling platform when it exploded.

“They’re assuming all those men who were on the platform are dead,” Kemp said. “That’s the last we’ve heard.”

A fleet of supply vessels had shot water into the rig in an attempt to control the fire enough to keep the rig afloat and crude oil and diesel fuel from escaping.

Gunns chairman ‘to stand down’

admin /23 April, 2010

Gunns chairman ‘to stand down’ April 23, 2010 – 5:09PM Gunns chairman John Gay will announce today that he will stand down, the Australian Financial Review reported this afternoon. A company spokesman was not immediately available for comment. Gunns shares ended the day up 1 cent, or 2 per cent, to 52.5 cents. Gunns posted Continue Reading →

PM on the run from policy failures

admin /23 April, 2010

 
PM on the run from policy failures

  • Dennis Shanahan, Political editor
  • From: The Australian
  • April 23, 2010 12:00AM
  • 98 comments

KEVIN Rudd is a good election campaigner and a master at creating an image and building popular expectations. Amid the carnage of the collapse of the $2.45 billion home roofing insulation scheme the Prime Minister single-handedly salvaged a positive image from a protest of angry displaced insulation workers outside Parliament House.

With his shirt sleeves rolled up and a small notebook in hand, Rudd went to the workers as a man of the people while the political furore over the debacle of the roofing insulation subsidy scheme raged inside the House of Representatives. Without an obvious minder or an organised bevy of television cameras and reporters, Rudd went straight to the concerned workers, small-company owners and their families, and put their fears at rest.

Rudd sends juniors to face the music

admin /23 April, 2010

Rudd sends juniors to face the music Sabra Lane in Canberra, ABC April 23, 2010, 10:27 am       Related Links Tanner promises budget surplus April 22, 2010, 12:18 pm Burn-offs spark NW health warning April 22, 2010, 12:08 pm Rudd pledges to lift GP numbers April 22, 2010, 12:31 pm Control of GST Continue Reading →

Can sitcoms save us from urban sprawl?

admin /22 April, 2010

Can sitcoms save us from urban sprawl?

MICHAEL R. JAMES

February 4, 2010

 

The lifetsyle of the characters in Friends could point to a better way of living than urban sprawl.

In the first of these articles reacting to The 7.30 Report’s series on Australia’s population last week, public transport was identified as the key factor needing radical change in our urban planning. It is the backbone that ties all the other bits together, and it won’t matter how good those bits are if, to commute between the different parts — home, school, work, shopping, sport, entertainment — we are obliged to use cars instead of walking, cycling or public transport.

Call for coup in Wilderness Society

admin /22 April, 2010

Call for coup in Wilderness Society

ADAM MORTON

April 22, 2010

A BITTER dispute within one of Australia’s largest green groups has deepened after six Wilderness Society state campaign managers called on its 45,000 members to dump the national leadership.

The call from centres in all states except South Australia is in a letter that claims the society is in crisis due to failures of executive director Alec Marr and the national management committee.

It follows months of infighting over the direction of the organisation that worsened after Mr Marr convened an annual general meeting in November without the knowledge of the state centres.

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