• Australia alert over oil leak on Great Barrier Reef

    A Chinese ship has run aground off north-eastern Australia, sparking an alert of an oil leak into the Great Barrier Reef.



    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8602400.stm

    Let's hope that the clean up crews can do whatever is necessary to protect the GBR from damage, and that some more important laws are enable to prevent a similar circumstance from occurring.
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    Comments 4 Comments
    1. Boulfish's Avatar
      Boulfish -
      Leave it to the damn Chinese to screw the reef up
    1. melev's Avatar
      melev -
      I altered your reply slightly to remove the racial slur. Let's refrain from that here.
    1. ghurlag's Avatar
      ghurlag -
      Quote Originally Posted by melev View Post
      I altered your reply slightly to remove the racial slur. Let's refrain from that here.
      Yeah, Marc's had enough controversy in the past few days already
    1. Plantguy's Avatar
      Plantguy -
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8613890.stm