Employees have been evacuated from a Timor Sea oil rig after an oil and gas spill 3.6km below the surface.
Oil and gas will continue to spill into the ocean from a drilling rig off Australia’s northwest coast for seven weeks, leaving a multi-million dollar clean-up bill for the company responsible.
About 40 barrels of oil are [...]

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A planned oil and gas exploration off the NSW coast has been praised as the public could benefit from a drop in petrol prices.  However the Greens believe it would give false hope and put the environment at risk.
Media reports have said skyrocketing oil prices had driven an Australian joint venture to develop a drilling [...]

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