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| Title: | Hulls, hazards and hard questions : shipping in the Great Barrier Reef : reducing the risk of spilling oil and other hazardous substances |
| Authors: | Ottesen, P. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
| Keywords: | Shipping - Environmental aspects - Great Barrier Reef - Congresses;Environmental protection - Queensland - Great Barrier Reef - Congresse;Oil spills - Queensland - Great Barrier Reef - Prevention - Congresses;Hazardous substances - Queensland - Transportation - Safety measures |
| ASFA Subjects: | Oil spills Risk management Hazardous materials Nature conservation |
| APAIS Subject: | Shipping Pollution |
| Category: | Ports and shipping Incidents |
| Issue Date: | 1994 |
| Publisher: | Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
| Series/Report no.: | Workshop series no. 19 Workshop series |
| Abstract: | The possibility of ecological damage to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is an issue that has attracted considerable discussion and expenditure of money, even before the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP) was created. In the early 1970s the possibility of oil exploration, drilling and mining on the Reef led the Commonwealth and Queensland Governments to establish joint Royal Commissions which investigated the exploration and production drilling for petroleum in the GBR. They reported in 1974. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11017/245 |
| ISBN: | 9780642174277 |
| Type of document: | Report |
| Appears in Collections: | Effects |
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| Hulls-hazards-hard-questions-shipping-in-the-GBR.pdf | 22.37 MB | Adobe PDF |  View/Open |
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