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Call to halt Great Australian Bight oil drilling amid faulty equipment fears
2016-09-11 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Oil rigs poised to begin drilling in the Great Australian Bight could use faulty equipment that US regulators say is very likely to cause a catastrophic incident like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. With no assurances the faulty equipment can be avoided in the Bight drilling, and safety plans that probably rely on faulty equipment already approved, parliamentarians and conservationists are calling for any approvals of BPs pending environmental plans to be halted, and...
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