Oil disaster in Australia - a podcast by Schülerinnen des Dr.-Johanna-Decker-Gymnasiums
from 2010-06-05T15:24:27
This podcast deals with the accident of an oil tanker on 3 April 2010 which happened near Great Barrier Reef, off the northeastern coast of Australia.
If you want to read a BBC report on this, look here: Great Barrier Reef oil disaster fear from stricken ship.
For a good explanation of the term "oil spill", have a look at the excellent pages of "Der Englisch-Blog": Wort der Woche: Oil spill.
There has been an even more disastrous accident involving oil on the oceans - the explosion of a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, on 20 April 2010. This article in the New York Times gives you some basic information about what happened to cause this environmental disaster: Size of Spill in Gulf of Mexico Is Larger Than Thought.
Here, at the site of the Boston Globe, you can see many pictures of what it looks like there now: Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico.
One positive bit of news: U. S. President Barack Obama has stopped oil drilling in the Arctic Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico, too. You can read about the ban on drilling in the Arctic Sea in this statement by the organisation for the protection of the environment, Defenders of Wildlife.
After you have listened to the podcast for the first time, you may want to make sure whether you understood everything. Here you can compare the script: Great Barrier Reef - script.
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