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What really goes on inside the New Zealand oil spill response team? You'll be surprised.
- Published_at:2013-06-12
- Category:Comedy
- Channel:Greenpeace New Zealand
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- description: In the event of deep sea oil blowout in New Zealand, industry chiefs tell us the conversation might go a little bit like this. The New Zealand Government intends to open up New Zealand waters to deep sea oil drilling in areas up to twice the depth of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. A blowout from an exploratory rig at that depth would make the Rena look like a drop in the bucket, and New Zealand's ability to deal with the spill is an absolute joke. Even Maritime New Zealand has confirmed that we are not ready to deal with such a disaster. We have three tiny boats that are not even open seas capable, and getting a relief rig to New Zealand could take months. Meanwhile, toxic oil would flow unchecked into our precious oceans. And even once the relief well arrived, it could be many more weeks before they would even have a hope of stopping it. Yet despite these risks and our clear inability to deal with a disaster Simon Bridges is rushing ahead with these reckless plans. It would be comical if the consequences weren't so dire. In the Gulf of Mexico BP used many different types of capping equipment and all of them failed. They only managed to stem the flow of oil using by using TWO relief rigs drilling down 3km into the seabed to intersect the original well. This took them 3 months. Right now the nearest relief rigs to NZ are 8,000 km away - that would take several months to get here AND ONLY THEN could they start the 3 month drilling. New Zealand is far from ready to handle even a small oil spill. SPIN DOESN'T WORK IN THE FACE OF FACTS - SHARE THIS VIDEO
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