Friday, 14 October 2011

You've heard of The Mexican Oil Spill, Now come's Tauranga's Turn

After last year's Gulf Of Mexico oil spill another one has come upon a city in New Zealand. This oil spill is New Zealand's worst enviromental disaster in history. Tauranga with a population of 120,000 people and being the biggest port in New Zealand had a cargo ship, The Rena, which was expected to stop in the Port of Tauranga on the 5th of October but got stranded on Astrolabe Reef and has currently:

1. Dropped more than 100 containers.
2. Killed more than 1,290 seabirds and other animals.
3. The oil has spread to Maketu
4. The ship has got some large cracks near the middle.    
5. The Rena is listing at 21 degrees.
6. More than 300 tonnes of oil has spilt from one of the ships main tanks.


100 of these containers have fallen of and some been broken on the shore.
Containers falling off the Rena.
A dead bird found on Mount Maunganui beach covered in oil from The Rena.
For more information go to the Bay Of Plenty Times or The New Zealand Herald.

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