New Zealand Environment At Risk
Join the march on the 29th March to stop deep sea oil corporations in NZ. This very important march is to take place in Auckland at noon, leaving from Britomart downtown by the ferry buildings.
New Zealand’s waters are about to be opened up to overseas corporations by the current national government. Our beautiful, clean, green environment is about to be raped and pillaged by these mega giant companies, who do not care a damn about the damage they cause. History shows their reluctance to take responsibility when accidents occur. And even with the best of intentions, and financial input, you cannot expect that the environment will ever fully recover again after a major oil spill. All those dead birds and fish cannot be brought back to life, and nor can the people who have died of cancers and other diseases linked to oil.
There are very toxic chemicals in oil which cause cancers and other degenerative disease.
The Gulf of Mexico is still suffering. Many people have died of strange illnesses and cancers after the massive spillage there. Millions of sea creatures and birds have died as a result of this accident.
For all their assurances that technology prevents such accidents, oil spillages are still going on.
Ocean drilling for oil is an exceedingly risky process, and so it should be stopped everywhere in the world wherever it can, and most especially in New Zealand.
New Zealand has such a small area, which makes it particularly vulnerable in the event of an oil spill or any disaster of a chemical nature.
New Zealand Oil Spills:
Tauranga is still recovering environmentally and economically from the oil spill of two years ago, when the ship Rena went aground and spilt masses of oil into the sea.
And we hear that over at the OMV’s floating oil storage facility in Taranaki, on the 23rd of February, just over a week ago, another oil spill has occurred 70 kilometres out from the Taranaki coastline. This has apparently put 300 litres into the sea, but I suspect that this figure vastly underestimates the actual amount. This is the fifth oil spill in this area over a five year period.
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