Timor Sea oil leak worsens

• Print
• Email

Updated October 27, 2009 13:31:09

Two months after an oil well ruptured, environmental campaigners say millions of litres of oil are still pouring into the Timor Sea.

The first scientists to survey the effects of the damaged rig, 200-kilometres off the West Australian coast, have compared its long-term effects to those of the Exxon Valdez spill near Alaska 20 years ago.

Presenter: Sen Lam
Speaker: Dr Gilly Llewellyn, the Conservation Manager with the World Wildlife Fund in Sydney

• Listen:
• Windows Media

• Gitmo undermines the US rights message in Asia: Amnesty
• 'Second Chance' for Bangkok slums
• Rudd praises Indonesian cooperation on asylum seekers
• India's PM decries national shame of malnutrition
• Debate over Australia's easing of sanctions against Burma
• Japan agrees to release anti-whaling activists
• Anwar Ibrahim to go after democratic reforms
• PNG leader rejects calls for resignation