Ecological disaster in Tristan da Cunha: penguins and lobster at risk plus threat of rats

Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 07:35 UTC

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A race to rescue up to 20,000 endangered northern Rockhopper penguins from an oil spill in an isolated South Atlantic British island group was under way this week after a cargo ship ran aground. Read full article

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Marcos Alejandro
I brought this news up several days before MercoPress. A perfect example of how Malvinas will look in the future.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
Thank you Marcos - you are now a news stringer for Mercopress ;-)
Do you know how to bring a breaking news story to the attention of Mercopress?
Mar 26th, 2011 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Martin_Fierro
Way to go Brits, whatever you touch you f@ck up, don't you?
Mar 26th, 2011 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Frank
A greek ship with a brazilian cargo... and its the fault of the British how exactly???

( Malta is an FoC much favoured by dodgy substandard outfits FYI )
Mar 26th, 2011 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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lsolde
lt must be our fault.....Martino said so & we all know that Argentines never lie.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 09:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Charle
Martin there's no way this is Uk's fault it's not our ship. Also believe it or not UK observes international law which actually means we have to let ships pass through those waters under the right of innocent passage. How could Uk avoid thiss Martin you tell us.
Mar 27th, 2011 - 06:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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lsolde
@6 Charle, Martino can't tell you because he is an idiot.
Mar 27th, 2011 - 09:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
What I want to hear is that the UK Government are billing the Greek owners for the clean-up costs, using the same (in practice a 'similar') protocol that which the US Federal ansdState Authorities are applying in the Bay of Mexico/US coastline.

Brasil should monitor closely these judgements, because a blow-out in the Brasilian off-shore enterprises will potentially financially cripple Petrobras, requiring taxpayers money to cover the residual compensations.

See: http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/aboutct/judges_papers/speeches_raresj14.html
Mar 27th, 2011 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Islander1
Come on them big mouth dumbo Martin - are we going to answer the questions?
Mar 27th, 2011 - 08:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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