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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.
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]
Disaster Location Deaths Date Notes Shipwreck: Christmas Island: 48: 2010 Dec 15: 2010 Christmas Island boat disaster: Cyclone/Flood: Cairns and Cardwell, Queensland: 47: 1927 Feb 9: This tropical cyclone crossed the coast north of Cairns, which weakened into a rain depression, causing extensive flooding, resulting in a total 47 deaths throughout parts of Northern Queensland [102]
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.
Gold mine at Kingston, Queensland: toxic waste Australia Lake Karachay: radioactive waste dump site Russia Love Canal: toxic waste dump United States Māpua contaminated site: toxic waste 1932-88 New Zealand Martin County sludge spill: water pollution 2000 United States Mayapuri: radioactive contamination 1986 India Minamata Bay mercury poisoning
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 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 ...