Didn’t think you could hate this Government anymore than you do? They’ve just been caught censoring a report showing 70% chance of a spill, fire or ship collision in first year of deep sea drilling.
Risks of deep sea drilling kept secret: Labour
The Government has deliberately withheld information of “vital national importance” surrounding plans to drill for oil off the Kaikoura coast, Labour says.Documents showed Environment Minister Amy Adams had kept secret the real risk of an incident occurring at the depths of Anadarko’s proposed Kaikoura drilling site, Labour leader David Cunliffe said.
The documents, released by Cunliffe in Christchurch this afternoon, showed Adams had received international research 13 months ago.
It showed a 70 per cent probability of a “reportable incident” happening within a year at the 1500-metre depth of the Kaikoura well. Such incidents could include an oil spill, fire or collision.
The documents showed that while existing shallow-water sites such as Taranaki carried a risk of only about 10 per cent, the risk increased dramatically at deeper levels, Cunliffe said.
When you consider that this Government have bent over backwards for big oil by criminalizing protest on the open seas minus the usual public processes for a royalty payback that is peanuts, finding out that the Government censored a report claiming a 70% ‘high incidence’ possibility is just the icing on the cake isn’t it?
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It depends on what is classified as a “reportable incident”.
Talk about cherry picking…
Reportable incidents are stuff like workplace injury, damage to equipment. Minor things.
The probabability of the major stuff like catastrophic failure is 0.2%.
eeeer it says “at 1500m”, I wouldn’t call that minor! If it is true that this information has been kept from the public by National or whoever in any way, I am quite disgusted.
Its not really ‘hidden’ if you can find it on google
http://www.rff.org/RFF/Documents/RFF-Resources-177_DeepwaterDrilling.pdf
The 1500 m things means that for a rig to operate at that depth, it will be at a larger scale than that of say a 500 m one. So larger scale means larger chance of accidents (more people to make mistakes, machines to break).
Ian where did that figure come from? I’m keen to check it out.
Incidentally I’d say a .2% chance of a catastrophic spill is too high given that you’re risking multiple industries and the living quality of a great many people for the sake of just a handful of jobs and a miserable 5% of royalties.
To be honest the 0.2% I heard from someone calling on NewstalkZB this morning on Leightons’ program.
And speaking as someone with connections to the petrolchemical industry, 0.2% is a typical number they throw around in risk management analysis with major incidents occuring.
What a load of nonsense, it is a 70% chance of an incident occurring which includes not just oil spills or industrial accidents but falling over, cutting a finger etc. The more industry their is the more likely that something will occur. Labor is being imperceptive which this. Also the government has not criminalized protest at sea which is why no body has been arrested in the flotilla protesting deep sea oil drilling, what you can’t do is obstruct vessels going about their lawful business, be it commerce, passenger service or exploration.
Labour, not Labor. We don’t live in America yet (though if John Key has his way, I’m sure we won’t be waiting for long).
United States of America, not America.
America is a continent.
If we can all be contrary:
North America is a continent. South America is a continent.
That is two of the total of seven. Which of the other five is the continent called America?
so if you’ re trying to minimise how that reads, a 70% chance of an “incident” occurring, by saying it includes accidents like falling over or cutting a finger are you trying to imply that the increase in risk is just an increase in falls and cut fingers?
’cause that’s sure what your comment looks like
which is completely illogical
the depth of the well most likely has noting or little to do with workers falling over and cutting fingers, but it does increase the technical challenges of getting the oil. the incidents reported which increase would more likely be of a rather more serious nature as a result of those increased technical challenges.
On radiolive I heard some spokesperson for the industry rabbiting on about the information being available on the net and the idiot in the studio saying the reports with the details were available for those who wanted them.
Naturally they downplayed (ignored) the fact that Amy Adams had redacted the stuff she didn’t want everyone to know. They are treating us like dirt.
Amy Adams, Simon Bridges et al are from the old school that still believes you can bamboozle people with selective information.
What makes such relatively young people behave in such an outdated mode?
The truth will out. Cunliffe gave her a solid serve. We need more of this punchy behaviour from the front bench.
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