<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f2f6cd52-9264-4837-ab4c-9beb7439b32f/CEE1A80A-02D5-405A-AC72-215E29250483/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/25/west-atlas-oil-spill-disaster-waiting-happen" href="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/25/west-atlas-oil-spill-disaster-waiting-happen" style="font-size: 11px;">newmatilda.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/25/west-atlas-oil-spill-disaster-waiting-happen"><H1>WA Oil Spill A Disaster Waiting To Happen</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/25/west-atlas-oil-spill-disaster-waiting-happen"><P class="abstract">Environmental considerations have been sidelined in the race for resource riches from Western Australia, writes Ben Eltham </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/25/west-atlas-oil-spill-disaster-waiting-happen">On Friday, the West Atlas oil and gas rig in the Timor Sea sprang a leak somewhere down its roughly 3.5 kilometres of drilling pipes. Oil started leaking out and is expected to continue to do so for up to 50 days. A 14 kilometre oil slick has spread out from the rig on the surface of the Timor Sea. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/25/west-atlas-oil-spill-disaster-waiting-happen"><P> "Clearly, spills like this will occur where there is drilling for oil and gas and they're an enormous environmental hazard, even though, at the end of the day, companies pay zip for the environmental damage that's done." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/25/west-atlas-oil-spill-disaster-waiting-happen">Woodside boss, Don Voelte, they've already extracted a government concession for 66 per cent of their prospective carbon permits for free. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/25/west-atlas-oil-spill-disaster-waiting-happen"><P> And who is one of the key corporate players running the Gorgon development? None other than Exxon Mobil. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CEE1A80A-02D5-405A-AC72-215E29250483/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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