A group of Australia’s surfing legends are standing with the Sea Shepherd in the #FightForTheBight at a critical point in history.
Norweigan oil-giant Equinor has submitted their revised Environment Plan to the Government regular NOPSEMA. Judgement is expected by November 14, 2019, with Equinor set to begin exploratory drilling in 2020.
Drilling in the pristine waters of the Great Australian Bight will irrevocably damage the marine environment. Faced with the looming threat of an oil spill, the reality of deafening seismic blasts and climate destruction, drilling in the Great Australian Bight is simply not worth the risk.
Stand with some of Australia’s surfing legends in protecting the Great Australian Bight from risky deepsea oil drilling by sending a letter of concern to Equinor here.
As Ocean Cleanup was about to install System 001/B in the speed up configuration for the first time on July 8th this year, mechanical Engineer Fedde Poppenk sat on deck of the Maersk Transporter and took a few minutes to share some early positive observations about the slow-down configuration. Turns out, his intuition was confirmed a few weeks later as we picked slow-down as the winning concept.
Lead Researcher and Oceanographer, Laurent Lebreton, discusses the mystery of missing ocean plastic and our new explanation for its whereabouts.
There is a vast difference between the several hundreds of thousands of tons of floating plastic in the ocean and the millions of tons entering annually. By creating models for the path of ocean plastic, it was observed that most river emissions are likely being filtered by coastlines and beaches, with a small fraction going offshore. This small fraction turns out to be relatively old and likely not degrading very quickly – thus, showing persistence. This new understanding highlights the importance of both source reduction and cleanup of legacy ocean plastic.
