Still quite blustery winds here, getting up to 50 and sometime 60 clicks at times. The temperatures are an anomaly, only down to 8 for a short time last evening, they drop a bit at sunrise but then up they go to the low teens, quite warm for us this time of year.
Those Woodward Group oil tankers must have hard arsed hulls as they seem to be constantly in the news due to going aground. Hard arsed just like the founder of the company.
This is the third grounding this year for the Mokami, she ran aground 10 years ago in a run outside Nain also.
It is possible that tides and winds and uncharted waters played a role in all these miss-haps but it is also possible that other factors are in play.
For one the authorities should investigate the practicality and the common sense in allowing single hull tankers into
The authorities should do a through investigation into why so many groundings from ships of the one company.
Ironic that another Woodward owned vessel with a not so glorious recent history was standing by to add assistance to the Mokami.
While still on the topic of hard arsed: this little loan/line of credit/corporate welfare gig must really kick unionized workers in the bollocks hard.
Hardly seems fair really what with the Vale workers on strike for 14 months and no end in sight. Governments are sure doing nothing to encourage a settlement, rather they are making sure the union and workers are beaten into the ground, hope all the workers remember that come election time.
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Does anyone know what happened to that barge full of diesel that was grounded up north and they just left it there and sent helicopters up to monitor it now and then? I never heard if it eventually sank or if they were able to rescue it.
The barge is still there being beaten by the waves, Canada does not look after its environment all that well do they?
Let the companies monitor themselves, disgraceful!.
Out of sight out of mind.
that is rediculous, I suppose they will just let it rust away to nothing.
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