Oily Protesters in Bikinis Oppose Spill
Leaking almost two month scene it started to go wrong. The leak started August 21 at PTTEP Australia’s Montana oilfield more than 200km of Western Australia’s Kimberley coastline. They have tried one way to stop the leak by plugging it with heavy mud. It could take more then three attempts and several more weeks to stop it. The spill mounted to $177 million and its clean-up bill was more then $5 million so far. There was a colorful protest included beating drums, with about 50 protesters chanting. Wilderness society WA marine coordinator Jill St John told out lookers that Australia had become complacent about its marine environment.
St. John said that he protected the Great Barrier Reef from the oil and the gas industry 40 years ago but seemed to have forgotten the marine environment was worth more than oil and gas. The oil and gas industry has not changed, it’s still dirty and it still pollutes. This region would suffer an untold and immeasurable cost because of the Montana oil spill, Dr. St John said. Unfortunately this oil spill is not just going to go away I didn’t evaporate as one federal Minster suggested it would. Rachel Siewert said it was clear PTTEP did not have the relief effort under control. This is not just any old marine environment it is our world class, globally significant.
Environmental effects of the oil spill but it should have been an independent appointment, senator Siewert said. There was genuine cause for concern about the spill spreading to Indonesian water, was concern with local fishermen and press reporting damage to their marine environments. They are now just getting information that there is a cause of concern. PTTEP said drilling would continue of a new sidetrack well towards the 25cm determine steel well casing it is targeting. The bypass will then be made to determine how far or close the sidetrack is to the other leaking well.