SCALING ON THE BIG BARRIER

ENVIRONMENT NEWS - A Chinese ship, stranded since Saturday near the Great Barrier Reef, particularly worries the authorities: the boat, which carries 65 000 tons of coal, hit a reef and a fuel tank has already broken, causing a slick of pollution of about 3 kilometers. The urgency is to stabilize it, in order to limit the damage on the barrier: it is feared that the boat will break completely, which would release all the 950 tons of fuel oil that are in its tanks.