Independent survey of Australian oil slick damning

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Updated October 28, 2009 09:44:08

Two months after an oil well ruptured off Australia's north-west coast, millions of litres of oil are still pouring into the Timor Sea, with reports from Indonesia saying that fish have been killed and plants destroyed at the island of Roti. 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, Conservation Manager with the World Wildlife Fund Australia

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