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Four thousand tonne oil spill in the North Sea
Posted by bex on 12 December 2007.
Some bad news from our Nordic office: around 4000 tonnes of raw oil has leaked into the North Sea, in the second largest oil spill in Norwegian history.
25,000 barrels-worth of oil leaked into a key herring and mackerel ground and is now drifting northwards. The waves are too high for any oil lenses to work, and a lot of the oil's being washed underwater.
The accident happened when a pipe broke during the loading of oil from the Statfjod A platform in bad weather.
There's more on Reuters.
oil spills
When I was little I remember oil spills used to make the evening news. It was worth telling the general public about them. Are they now so literally a drop in the ocean its not worth mentioning them, what with all the other terrible things happening to the environment, or are people just not interested or what? Stuff like this appears to be viewed as niche now, environmental news, maybe an inch column in the paper, mostly off radar.
The same applies to big marches through London. Protest is quite off radar. Greenpeace made the news a lot with its protests years ago, now you sometimes get spokesman in studio discussions but Kingsnorth mostly went unnoticed by my friends and family. I know the main media are crap and you have to lobby for stuff to be on the main news but it looks to me like its all being specifically ignored.
What do others think??? Is my memory selective?