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This is a list of industrial accidents and incidents that have resulted in environmental damage and/or has resulted in death or major injury that have occurred within the fossil fuel industry in Australia, in either the extraction, mining, processing or transporting phases. Oil tanker Oceanic Grandeur oil spill – 1970 [1]
The term incidents refers to any significant human activity, accidental or not, that contributes or creates the conditions in which environmental and cultural heritage is degraded. Conditions of degradation can be determined if the item or event, without human interaction would have sustained itself markedly better.
The Great Barrier Reef's environmental pressures include water quality from runoff, climate change and mass coral bleaching, cyclic outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish, overfishing, and shipping accidents. The government of Queensland currently kills sharks in the Great Barrier Reef using drum lines, causing damage to the marine ecosystem ...
The 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill occurred off the coast of southeast Queensland, Australia on 11 March 2009, when 230 tonnes of fuel oil, 30 tonnes of other fuel and 31 shipping containers containing 620 tonnes of ammonium nitrate spilled into the Coral Sea, north of Moreton Bay during Cyclone Hamish.
The wreak is one of the largest and well-preserved shipwrecks of Queensland's seas. 1911–1912 Heat wave: 1911–1912 Australian heat wave: 143 [15] 1912 Cyclone: Sinking of the SS Koombana and Balla Balla cyclone: 173+ The SS Koombana was lost in a cyclone between Port Hedland and Broome with all 158 on board.
The flooding was the result of a low pressure system over Queensland's southern coast that dragged in moisture from the Coral Sea in the north, raising it over the Queensland coastline. The area of colder air higher in the atmosphere which the low-pressure system travelled in, thus making the atmosphere unstable and permitting moisture to be ...
Environmental issues in the Niger Delta relating to the oil industry, 1976–1996; Arctic Refuge drilling controversy, since 1977; Amoco Cadiz shipwreck and oil spill off the coast of Brittany, France, March 1978; Ixtoc I oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, June 1979; SS Atlantic Empress collision and spill near Trinidad and Tobago, August 1979
The distraction of the Central Queensland bushfires is what a Queensland funeral driver said in court caused him to drive off with a corpse of a stillborn baby on the roof of his vehicle which then fell onto the roadside, following a transfer between vehicles on the Sunshine Coast while it was being transported from Rockhampton to Brisbane. [28]