Army soldiers cleaning Papamoa Beach after oil from the grounded ship Rena reached shore. Photo source : ©© NZ Defence Force
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A Greek shipping company has agreed to pay the New Zealand government up to $31.5 million toward the cleanup costs of a cargo ship’s grounding on a reef near popular swimming and surfing beaches last year. But taxpayers will still be footing some of the bill…
Oil Spill Disaster In New Zealand : Worst In Decades, BBC News
More Rena Debris Washes Up, New Zealand
Company pledges money for New Zealand oil cleanup- 2011
The company that was chartering a cargo ship at the time it ran aground on a New Zealand reef and began spilling tons of oil offered 1 million New Zealand dollars ($800,000) Tuesday to help with the cleanup.
The Teaspoon And The Bucket, Greenpeace
Now the Rena Cargo ship is set to join the wildlife fatalities her grounding has caused. But if she breaks and the remainder of that oil is released we will see four times the volume of oil already spilled. It must be remembered that what we can get to and remove, is only a part of what permeates the environment…
