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- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!hippo!ucthpx!ray.uct.ac.za!rodger
- From: rodger@ray.uct.ac.za (Duffett, RV, Rodger, Radiobiology (RAY Supervisoor))
- Subject: Shetland Oil Spill
- Summary: Ban the Supertanker
- Sender: news@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (UCT News Admin.)
- Message-ID: <rodger.1@ray.uct.ac.za>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 07:46:09 GMT
- Organization: University of Cape Town
- Keywords: Supertanker, Oil
- Lines: 15
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- It is ironic to see people chaining themselves to embassies in protest over
- isolated Plutonium shipments while daily hundreds of giant, fragile
- motorised balloons, filled with millions of litres of oil, sail the oceans
- of OUR world. The catastrophes like the Valdez and now the Baer are only
- the tip of the iceberg in a series of daily disasters which escape world
- headlines.
-
- Try this for a recipe for disaster - Take one enormous single-skinned ship,
- fill it with oil, give it only one means of propulsion, don't allow access
- to latest pinpoint coastal navigational aids and set it free on the oceans
- of OUR world where it will have to contend with the power of wind and sea
- and sun.
-
- It is time somebodies arm got twisted. Safer tanker technology is available!
- Supertanker = super disaster
-