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Earth Matters
Program 80a
Juliet Fox
3CR Community Radio
03 9419 8377
ComRadSat Program 6/8/1999
CUE SHEET
INTRO : "Hello and welcome to ..."
OUTRO : "... see you later."
DURATION : 26'45" (frogs til around 27'45)
Sydney Harbour Oil Spill
Just last month on Earth Matters we spoke to Margi Prideaux of the
Australian Conservation Foundation about an oil spill in St Vincent's Gulf
off the coast of South Australia. The spill saw 270,000 litres spew into
the waters. At the time Margi warned of future incidents that pose a
significant threat to Australia'sl coastal waters.
On the night of August the 3rd an Italian tanker just off the SHELL Gore
Bay Terminal began discharging around 80,000 litres of light crude oil into
Sydney Harbour. Today on Earth Matters we hear from Jeff Angel of the Total
Environment Centre in Sydney about the spill, the response and cleanup and
his calls for the terminal to be moved.
We also speak with Paddy Crumlin from the Maritime Union of Australia, who
explains that such an incident is both predictable and inevitable given the
Federal Government's consistent whittling away of the Australia shipping
industry.
International Letter Campaign marks this year's Hiroshima Day
August the 6th marks Hiroshima Day, the day when the first nuclear bomb was
dropped on a civilian population. Today on Earth Matters we speak to John
Hallam of Friends of the Earth about the current threat of a nuclear bomb
being dropped come the year 2000. John explains that the horrors of
Hiroshima could well be repeated if the United States and Russia do not
take their computer controlled nuclear weapons off hairtrigger alert before
January 2000 when the effects of the Y2K bug could cause them to go off.
To mark this year's Hiroshima Day a letter is being released in several
countries around the world that urges both Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin
to act immediately to safeguard the world from the threat of nuclear bombs.
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