Michael Hopkin

Oil and gas industry must be more accountable

Place: the Timor Sea. Time: about nine weeks ago. The crew of the stricken West Atlas oil rig has been evacuated after the explosive onset of the oil spill that still continues to splosh at least 400 barrels a day into the water.Around 50 km to the...
Fri, October 30, 2009, 2:49 pm WST
The oil spill rumour mill

As the oil continues to pour into the Timor Sea, the only thing moving more slowly than the snail-paced mission to stop it is the virtually non-existent effort to assess the disaster's environmental legacy.While the media gets daily updates on the...
Fri, September 4, 2009, 5:18 pm WST