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Oil spill is NZ’s worst

A fresh oil slick has been detected coming from the stricken Rena near New Zealand’s east coast

NEW ZEALAND: The oilspill from the strickenship Rena is now NewZealand’s biggest mari-time environmental dis-aster and the clean-upcould take weeks, theGovernment says.

Oil first washed ashoreon Monday, five days af-ter the 236m Liberian-flagged container shipran aground on the As-trolabe Reef, 12 nauticalmiles off Tauranga onthe North Island.

Environment MinisterNick Smith said the oilspill was inevitable oncethe Rena ran aground.

‘‘I want to acknow-ledge that this event hascome to a scale where itis New Zealand’s most

significant maritime en-vironmental disaster,’’he said yesterday.

‘‘The advice I’m re-ceiving is that theamount of oil is fivefoldwhat was released inearlier periods.

‘‘This operation is go-ing to be a marathon, nota sprint.’’

Non-essential crewhave been removed fromthe grounded ship inNew Zealand’s Bay ofPlenty after it shifted onunstable rock.

Maritime New Zea-land (MNZ) says theRena was listing about 11degrees on the reef butthat had improved onMonday night to a moreupright position.

ESPACE TUBESAN FRANCISCO:Teenagers around theworld have been in-vited to design exper-iments to be conduc-ted on the Inter-national Space Sta-tion and streamed onvideo-sharing web-site YouTube. TheGoogle-owned firmand Chinese com-puter titan Lenovoworked with US, Eur-opean, and Japaneseagencies to launchYouTube Space Labas a way to ignite pas-sions for learning sci-ence. ‘‘Google wasfounded by scientists,so inspiring the nextgeneration of scien-tists is very importantto us,’’ said ZahaanBharmal, a marketingchief of the UnitedStates internet firm.

LASHOUTRAGESYDNEY: The Austral-ian producers of a filmcritical of Iran saythey are appalled atreports that an Iran-ian actress has beensentenced to a year inprison and 90 lashesfor appearing in themovie. ActressMarzieh Vafamehr’sattorney has ap-pealed the sentence.Lashing sentencesare not uncommon inIran, but many are notcarried out. Thecharges relate toscenes in the film inwhich Marzieh ap-pears without a hijabheadscarf. ProducersJulie Ryan and KateCroser said they wereshocked and sad-dened by the heavysentence.

Judge resignsPHNOM PENH: A Ger-man judge responsiblefor indictments ofKhmer Rouge war cri-mes suspects at Cam-bodia’s UN-backed tri-bunal has resigned,alleging government in-terference in the inves-tigation of new cases.

Judge SiegfriedBlunk had come underfire from rights groupsfor failing to fully in-vestigate new suspectsfor the court, which is

seeking justice for anestimated 1.7 millionpeople who died of star-vation, exhaustion,lack of medical care ortorture during theKhmer Rouge’s rule.

Human Rights Watchcalled for Blunk to re-sign for failing to con-duct genuine and im-partial investigationsinto suspects past oneconvicted last year.

Blunk defended hisrecord as he resigned.

Archbishop pleaHARARE: The Arch-bishop of Canterburyhas asked President Ro-bert Mugabe to end at-tacks on Anglicans inZimbabwe, where arenegade bishop hasforced the faithful out oftheir churches.

Rowan Williams metMr Mugabe at StateHouse to lay out hisconcerns about the as-sault on the church that

has seen even teachersand nurses chased fromschools and orphan-ages. ‘‘It is illegal be-haviour. We deplore themanner in which manyof the historic assets ofthe church, hospitalsand schools have notonly been seized by thebreakaway group butare no longer used forthe purpose for whichwere designed,’’ he said.