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10/03/2009 Queensland oil spill

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Australian Oil Spill Worse Than Thought

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Bushfires in Victoria Floods FNQ and Now a Major Oil Spill

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Clean-Up Ends

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Poor equipment condition led to oil spill

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Companies fined over Queensland's worst oil spill

The 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill occurred off the coast of southeast Queensland, Australia, 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.
    • Essentials 

    • Cause and initial responses 

    • Affected areas 

    • Clean-up 

    • Effects and consequences