Radio
NZ coverage was predicatably biased, giving the oil industry the
final right of reply without giving anyone from Greenpeace the
opportunity to blast Anadarco's propaganda out of the water
The modelling for the north shows the likelihood of oil hitting Auckland’s iconic West Coast beaches and harbours. In the south, a spill off the coast of Otago could spread across the Chatham Rise - a vital commercial fishing ground and marine wildlife habitat - reaching all the way to the Chatham Islands.
“In the North Island scenario, a deep-sea blowout will probably have dramatic consequences for the entire Western coastline and harbours from Taranaki’s Cape Egmont to Opononi in Northland - including Auckland’s West Coast beaches. For a blowout off Otago, most modelled trajectories drift eastward without encountering land for months between Christchurch and the Chatham islands.” - Timo Franz, Dumpark Data Analyst
Spill modelling reports are a permitting requirement for oil drilling, however deep-sea oil spill modelling reports have not yet been made publicly available on the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) website.
Greenpeace Campaigner Steve Abel said “The Government have been understating the real risks being taken with our oceans and coastlines, so today we are showing New Zealanders what the Government, Minister Simon Bridges and industry already know and have kept hidden - the full extent of the risk of deep-sea drilling.”
“Drilling at these depths is much riskier than the shallow drilling we currently have in New Zealand. This modelling suggests just how much of a threat deep-sea drilling could be to our values, our seas, our beaches, our way of life and our economic prosperity."
The spill modelling report will be launched on Wednesday 23 October, alongside an interactive website and animation (www.oilspillmap.org.nz).
Documents:
For more GO HERE
Predictably -
Oil spill could swamp estuaries, beaches
Oil spill maps for a Gulf of Mexico type disaster off the Taranaki coast predict crude oil could swamp sensitive estuaries and beaches from Cape Egmont, south of New Plymouth, to Hokianga in Northland.
Deep-sea
oil blowout could decimate favourite kiwi beaches
A
computer oil spill modelling report released today shows a deep-sea
blowout could have devastating impacts on New Zealand's coastal
waters and significant economic consequences.
23
October, 2013
Industry
standard modelling by Wellington based data scientists Dumpark using
ten years of climate and weather data, shows the blowout effects of
two planned deep-sea drilling locations off the West Coast of the
North Island and the East Coast of the South Island. The deepest
current production well in New Zealand is 125 meters. Texan oil
driller Anadarko is scheduled to begin the first deep-sea drilling
(at 1500 meters) this summer off Auckland’s West Coast.
“We
predicted the trajectory of a thousand oil spill scenarios at two
sites in New Zealand using ten years of global archives of marine
weather data. We are basically answering a “what if” question.
What if a catastrophic blowout scenario occurred at these deep-sea
drill sites?” - Laurent Lebreton, Dumpark Ocean Modeller
The modelling for the north shows the likelihood of oil hitting Auckland’s iconic West Coast beaches and harbours. In the south, a spill off the coast of Otago could spread across the Chatham Rise - a vital commercial fishing ground and marine wildlife habitat - reaching all the way to the Chatham Islands.
“In the North Island scenario, a deep-sea blowout will probably have dramatic consequences for the entire Western coastline and harbours from Taranaki’s Cape Egmont to Opononi in Northland - including Auckland’s West Coast beaches. For a blowout off Otago, most modelled trajectories drift eastward without encountering land for months between Christchurch and the Chatham islands.” - Timo Franz, Dumpark Data Analyst
Spill modelling reports are a permitting requirement for oil drilling, however deep-sea oil spill modelling reports have not yet been made publicly available on the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) website.
Greenpeace Campaigner Steve Abel said “The Government have been understating the real risks being taken with our oceans and coastlines, so today we are showing New Zealanders what the Government, Minister Simon Bridges and industry already know and have kept hidden - the full extent of the risk of deep-sea drilling.”
“Drilling at these depths is much riskier than the shallow drilling we currently have in New Zealand. This modelling suggests just how much of a threat deep-sea drilling could be to our values, our seas, our beaches, our way of life and our economic prosperity."
The spill modelling report will be launched on Wednesday 23 October, alongside an interactive website and animation (www.oilspillmap.org.nz).
Documents:
For more GO HERE
Predictably -
Oil spill could swamp estuaries, beaches
Oil spill maps for a Gulf of Mexico type disaster off the Taranaki coast predict crude oil could swamp sensitive estuaries and beaches from Cape Egmont, south of New Plymouth, to Hokianga in Northland.
Oil
spill prediction map for a Gulf of Mexico style blowout off the
Taranaki coast.
GREENPEACE
NZ
23
October, 2013
The
computer models were commissioned by Greenpeace, based on drilling
plans by Texan oil company Anadarko offshore from Taranaki and Otago
this summer.
The
models predict that, over 76 days, spilled oil off Taranaki would hit
Auckland's Piha and Muriwai beaches hard, but spread much wider.
Off
the Otago coast, a test well blowout spill of 10,000 barrels of oil a
day would mostly spread away from the coast, across a vast area of
ocean to the Chatham Islands.
Greenpeace
says the Government and the oil industry are deliberately keeping the
public in the dark about the real risks of deepwater drilling.
Greenpeace
campaigner Steve Abel says the group released the maps because the
Government and the oil industry will not.
However,
the Petroleum Exploration and Production Association says the models
are science fiction and the true, worst-case scenario for New Zealand
is far less alarming.
Chief
executive David Robinson says the maps do not reflect the realities
of drilling in New Zealand.
He
told Morning
Report the
circumstances for a Gulf of Mexico type disaster are not found in
this country.
Mr
Robinson says test wells off Otago are much more likely to find gas
than oil, so that part of the model is also wrong.
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