From the Guardian: The Australian Marine Conservation Society said the incident highlighted the risks posed by the amount of shipping going through the Great Barrier Reef due to greatly increased exports of coal and liquefied natural gas (LNG). “We are very glad that the crew are safe and that we have narrowly avoided a disaster in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area,” said Felicity Wishart, reef campaigner at the AMCS. “But we are also deeply concerned that the state government wants to increase the number of cargo ships travelling through the reef every year, increasing the risk of a disaster.” Wishart said that the current total of 4,000 ships crossing the reef each year would rise to 7,000 by 2020 if proposed port expansions in Queensland, including Abbot Point, Gladstone and Cairns, go ahead.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:55:36 +0000
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