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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: portej05 on March 13, 2009, 09:29:04 am

Title: Massive oil spill in Queensland (Australia)
Post by: portej05 on March 13, 2009, 09:29:04 am

Massive Oil Spill (ABC News) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/13/2516120.htm)

This one is fast becoming a major political issue here.

Title: Re: Massive oil spill in Queensland (Australia)
Post by: Hellstryker on March 13, 2009, 11:35:21 am

Poor Australians, you guys just don't get a break, do you?  :blah:

Title: Re: Massive oil spill in Queensland (Australia)
Post by: iamzack on March 16, 2009, 06:04:11 am

Is the fire out yet? I'm going to be sad if the water catches on fire.

Title: Re: Massive oil spill in Queensland (Australia)
Post by: ssmit132 on March 16, 2009, 06:56:08 am

At least that would burn off all the oil. :drevil:

But I think the worst of the Victorian bush fires are over.

Title: Re: Massive oil spill in Queensland (Australia)
Post by: iamzack on March 16, 2009, 07:01:49 am

I guess the one fortunate thing is that oil floats on the water. So the animals that don't hang around on the surface are a bit less harmed... But I suppose the oil blocks out sunlight for those underwater plants and the phytoplankton that the underwater animals eat. *sigh*

But ecological disaster doesn't compare to the loss of income from fewer tourists.

Title: Re: Massive oil spill in Queensland (Australia)
Post by: Spicious on March 16, 2009, 07:06:24 am

Bushfires were in Victoria; flooding was in Queensland.

Title: Re: Massive oil spill in Queensland (Australia)
Post by: iamzack on March 16, 2009, 07:09:42 am

Yeeah, I don't know the difference. Poor, ignant redneck and all that. *shrug*

Title: Re: Massive oil spill in Queensland (Australia)
Post by: tinfoil on March 16, 2009, 05:18:02 pm

Jesus Christ, the kind of optimists Australians must be...