Bureaucrats fumble oil spill plan release

Bureaucrats fumble oil spill plan release
By Pattrick Smellie Nov 24 (BusinessDesk) – Officials at Maritime New Zealand have spent the weekend scrambling to create a public version of Texan oil explorer Anadarko’s detailed plans to control a major oil spill at its drilling rig 150 kilometres off the North Island west coast. The risk of such a spill is judged “extremely unlikely” in a 250 page environmental impact assessment report from Anadarko, published on the Environmental Protection Authority’s website. But detailed annexes to the report covering oil spill modelling, an emergen...