Timor Sea Inferno

Timorese Wake Up to the Timor Oil Spill

Well Rai Ketak should be applauded by starting the Timorese oriented clamour on the Timor Sea Oil Spill....

... and finally the Timorese press and politicians have woken up and started talking about it too!  See here for the latest from Tempo Semanal.

Timor Sea: Burn Baby Burn.

For the video click here.  The Montara Oil Rig owned by PTTE has been spilling oil for 10 weeks, now on its third or fourth attempt to plug the leak 2.5 km under the sea bed it has exploded into fire - yesterday.  Some one should really be fired.  For details on background check out Rai Ketak's blog page.

Worst Oil Spill Ever?

Full story here.

Environmental DISASTER: This is the Timor Sea in October 2009

On 21 August 2009 a Thai owned and operated oil rig in the Australian section of the Timor Sea experienced a major blow out.

After two months of spewing crude oil and other junk into the Timor Sea it is not appearing as though considerably more effluent has been dumped into the Timor Sea than the operator was admitting too - only after several failed attempted at plugging the blowout 2.5 km below the seabed.

Two fellow bloggers know much more about it than the DI - check them out 1) Return to Rai Ketak and 2) Skytruth.

Check out the Corporate Social Responsibility page for PTTE the operator in question.  Geez.  Planting trees again.....