Race to clean up Indian Ocean oil spill

Nearly 1,000 tonnes of oil have leaked from a Japanese ship since it ran aground on a coral reef. Thousands of students, environmental activists and residents of Mauritius were working around the clock trying to reduce the damage to the Indian Ocean. Environmentalists are already calling the spill an 'ecological disaster.'


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[letmedietomorrow]

If there were no limit to compensation damages, each "accident" would bankrupt a company.

[jordanlyons]

Every year there's a new record breaking oil spill. People will act like they care for 2 weeks and a month later corporations will remember how much money they can make and once again sacrifice safety for dollar signs

[krisl]

Japan apologized
Japan sending a team to assist with the cleanup
Ship ran aground July 25th and its now the middle of August
Step it

[serahaz]

whichever company or country owns the ship/oil should pay towards the full clean up and restoration of the environmental damage.

[andrewmarkmusic]

Typical... corporations waited until it spilled rather than sending in teams to deal with it on day one...

[rumblings]

Sad, half to see some international help coming through, hopefully the oil companies send there own clean up teams to assist, they are the ones with bottomless pockets

[aaronvallejo]

Another example why we need to invest trillions annually to build our renewably powered global economy. Regional wind farms with distributed solar PV and high insulation along with electric heated floors backed up with Tesla 3 MW grid batteries and bidirectional electric vehicles.

[InderjitSingh]

this is why BC doesn't want oil shipping off its coast

[pabloplato]

mushrooms are also really good for soaking up oil spills. a concerted effort should be made to grow mycelium nets that can be laid on the surface around the ship to soak up the oil and possibly even extract and refine it at a later point in time.
Japan is really into mushrooms, they should be paying their mushroom farmers to produce nets. And the rest of Japan should pay penance for this atrocity against aquatic habitats by giving up eels for at least a year to allow the worldwide populations to grow and make up for the loss of life in the Indian Ocean.

[pinetree]

Back to Earth the oil shall go. Back to where it was taken from., ,

[WoodstockG]

Since we can’t depend on shipping companies to quickly respond to these situations, then there should be an international organization that should respond, billing cost of clean up to the United Nations, then they can go after the shipping company for repayment.

[MARILYNANDERSON]

shippers need proper response equipment easily available

[sabrevanson]

why....why was it sailing near a coral reef?

[dementedone]

because of the need for oil, many water-ways have been destroyed forever. wtg oil industry.

[BalboaBaggins]

Yes, humans have much to learn still.

[kyletracey]

The cost of doing busines is all the oil company cares about. Fines bankrupt you? Just re open as another limited company

[electronphoton]

1000 tones??

Why does different with the other report??

[heliumburrito]

That boat i swear was like a mile long

[susiefairfield]

When we going to be solar, I would build one for myself if I had access to an affordable and good system

[onikatheharajuku]

Why are people always messing something up