New Oil Spills in New Zealand's Worst
Sea Pollution Crisis
By Erica Berenstein
Posted October 11, 2011
In the past week in New Zealand there has been an awful oil spill. It is causing very big problems for New Zealand’s North Island and the environment. What happened is that a cargo ship got caught in the coral reef. The reef damaged the ship causing oil to leak into the ocean. The cargo ship is too heavy to move. Even if they could move the ship, the weight of the ship would crush and ruin the reef. The problem keeps getting worse and worse since the weather in New Zealand has been dreadful. There have been storms and the sea has been very choppy. This weather is bad because it is making the cargo spill aka the oil and the high winds are pushing the ship deeper into the coral reef.
This is an environmental crisis because by where the oil is leaking there is a beach shore that is reserved for sea life, whales, rare sea birds, dolphins, penguins and seals. Some of these animals are dying such as several sea birds and small blue penguins. The oil spill is endangering these innocent and sweet animals. On the island, people claim to have found what looked like black jelly fish but it was really big clumps of black oil that is thick as tar.
When I saw this article, I thought of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and how we just got it cleaned up. It is just one problem after another with oil. We need to star being more careful with our environment and develop other sources of energy besides oil.
Got my video from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHxF9A41U0w
Wow. It really does look like a jellyfish. This is so sad. Even the Gulf of Mexico is not cleaned up yet. Poor animals, huh. You know, Despina read about watermelons being a new fuel source for cleaner energy. Check out that article on her blog. It's really quite interesting.
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