Up to five weeks wait for emergency cap for controversial Great Australian Bight oil well plan

(This conversation is about something that we ought not even be considered for scientific consensus is that if the world is to have any chance of slowing, stalling, or stopping climate change, then the only place for fossil fuels is on the ground, where they rest safely already – Robert McLean)

Fire boat response crews battle the blazing
remnants of the offshore oil rig
Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana, in 2010.

A 35-day delay to ship capping technology to Australia in the event of a major oil spill has prompted warnings the Great Australian Bight could suffer an environmental disaster to rival the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

Tourism, fisheries and environmental groups have pledged to continue to fight plans by oil giant BP to dig two new wells of up to two kilometres deep in waters off the South Australian coastline, saying the project risks pristine oceans and vulnerable marine life.

Read Tom McIlroy’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Up to five weeks wait for emergency cap for controversial Great Australian Bight oil well plan.”