Rapid response protocols for ship grounding needed expert
Post on: 2011-11-02 By: admin
Dr. Barbara Bollard-Breen, senior lecturer in marine conservation biology at AUT University's School of Applied Science is available to comment on the fall-out from the Rena oil spill and subsequent environmental implications."This morning, Maritime New Zealand indicated that up to 350 tonnes of oil have spilled from the Rena and more is expected over the next several hours," says Bollard-Breen."While the oil spill from the Rena has placed the marine and coastal regions in the Bay of Plenty at great risk, all of New Zealand's coastal areas are vulnerable to this sort of disaster.""It highlights the urgent need to develop rapid response protocols for ship groundings and oil spills and mechanisms to prevent this from occurring again. It also highlights the need for a more comprehensive approach to marine ecosystem management in New Zealand.""This has turned into an environmental disaster with widespread implications. It has the potential to not only affect some of our most pristine coastal areas in the Bay of Plenty region, but also estuaries and already threatened marine habitats, sea birds, shellfish, marine mammals and other marine life. It will also impact upon commercial, amateur and customary fishing, tourism, surfing and other recreational activities in the area."Dr Bollard-Breen's area of research expertise includes: ecosystem management and marine spatial planning, identification and selection of Marine Protected Areas, mapping the distribution and abundance of marine mammals and integrating social data with environmental and biological information using support systems and multivariate statistics.
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Lrd12:32pm Wednesday 12th October 2011 ESTReport AbuseBut we have a plan. ShonKey said so. He said that
the national plan had been activated
and was dealing with the emergency. He
wouldn't lie. Would he?
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keith holyoake12:33pm Wednesday 12th October 2011 ESTReport AbuseIt highlights the need for Maritme NZ to have
Time Served Marine Engineers not accountants
running the show and a need to police the quality
of ships and their crews sailing on this coast,
Shipley's National government smashed NZ
shippng into the ground as part of a world wide
movement for scoundrels to sail rust buckets with
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Rupert Bear12:38pm Wednesday 12th October 2011 ESTReport AbuseThe clowns could never do anything rapidly. Fire
them and the government looking over them and try
to find someone with some common sense.
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padams12:43pm Wednesday 12th October 2011 ESTReport Abusecourse they should, major airports are ready for
disaster, as should main ports be ready.
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