Environmental disasters

Date: 2011

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019187

Description: On a polluted beach an oil-drenched penguin tells its similarly afflicted child 'Now the fools are talking undersea drilling, kid, so you'd better just get used to it!!' In the background is the container ship 'Rena' stuck on the Astrolabe Reef. Context: On 5th October 2011 the container ship 'Rena' ran into and became stuck on the Astrolabe reef off the coast of Tauranga. It is spilling oil, threatening coastlines and killing seabirds. Authorities are racing to get the oil and the containers off the ship before it breaks up but the weather is frustrating efforts. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0019202

Description: On a beach covered in black oil and dying and dead oil-covered fish and birds, an oil-covered penguin sees lying nearby, a newspaper with a headline that reads 'Kiwis wear too much black says columnist.' The penguin says 'You can say that again!' Context: Dominion Post columnist Karl du Fresne laments the absence of colours in New Zealanders' dress sense and this has drawn a big response. The cartoon applies the comment to the environmental disaster that has followed the grounding of the container ship 'Rena' on the Astrolabe Reef off the coast of Tauranga. This happened on the 5th October during the Rugby World Cup. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019210

Description: A man watches the news on television. The news front person reads 'It's just oil oil and more oil!' The man's wife calls from the kitchen 'Good grief! Isn't there something other than cooking shows?' Context: the oil refers to the 'Rena' disaster. The container ship 'Rena' is breaking up on the Astrolabe Reef off the coast of Tauranga and is spilling oil, threatening coastlines and killing seabirds. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019220

Description: In the top frame a group of men panic shouting 'Our international image is in danger!' because 'We should have been prepared' and 'There's been too much delay!' In the lower frame we see that the men are in a pub and are talking about the All Blacks, not the Rena. Context: The All Blacks have been suffering a series of injuries thus jeopardising their Rugby World Cup chances. And the 'Rena' is a foreign owned container ship that has run aground on Astrolabe Reef near Tauranga and is leaking oil. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019150

Description: Two boys come into the house with their boogy boards; they are covered in oil. Their mother who is reading a newspaper that carries the headline 'Ship on rocks' says without looking up 'Any sign of oil on the rocks boys?' Context: refers to the 'Rena' disaster. The container ship 'Rena' is breaking up on the Astrolabe reef off the coast of Tauranga and is spilling oil, threatening coastlines and killing seabirds. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019223

Description: Two men stare at a polluted stretch of sea and are disgusted at the 'fouling of our clean green image.' The lower part of the cartoon shows that they are standing on top of an enormous barrel bearing a skull and crossbones and the words 'Farm leachate' which is leaking into the water. One of them says 'I hope they throw the book at the @*!!*!' Context: This appeared to be about the oil spillage from the grounded container ship Rena but is in fact about the fouling of waterways by farming runoff. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019154

Description: In four frames a group of godwits chat as they fly. One of them says that the difference between godwits and humans is that godwits navigate the globe without GPS and flock together to avoid problems before it's too late. This last is said as they fly over the oil slick leaking from a ship. Context: refers to the 'Rena' disaster. The container ship 'Rena' is breaking up on the Astrolabe reef off the coast of Tauranga and is spilling oil, threatening coastlines and birds. The 'godwit' reference is about the return of godwits to Christchurch each year. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Grosz, Christopher, 1947- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0018909

Description: A man in a suit sits under a Shell oil sign with the Shell logo leaking oil on to his head. Context: This cartoon relates to Shell Oil accepting responsibility for two devastating oil spills in Nigeria's Ogoniland region. The Bodo fishing community sued Shell in the UK, alleging that spills in 2008 and 2009 had destroyed the environment and ruined their livelihoods. Their lawyer said they would seek hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for one of the world's "most devastating oil spills". Shell told the BBC it would settle the case under Nigerian law. (www.bbc.co.uk - 3 August 2011) Title taken from file heading Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019155

Description: Someone in a helicopter flying over the stricken container ship 'Rena' says 'At least it gives us heaps of clean-up practice if they start oil-drilling off the East Cape!' Context: refers to the 'Rena' disaster. The container ship 'Rena' is breaking up on the Astrolabe Reef off the coast of Tauranga and is spilling oil, threatening coastlines and birds. Critics of oil drilling see the effects of the Rena disaster as what might be expected from an oil drilling disaster. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019244

Description: The stricken container ship 'Rena' aground on Astrolabe Reef off the coast of Tauranga, loses containers overboard and spills oil. Many boats and helicopters encircle the ship to help in the clean-up. Someone in a helicopter says 'At least it gives us heaps of clean-up practice if they start oil-drilling off the East Cape!' Context: Critics of oil-drilling are interested in this oil spill as a perfect example of what could happen if oil exploration goes ahead. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019270

Description: One penguin drenched in black oil says to another 'If one more bloke says 'Go All Blacks' one more time...' In the background is the grounded container ship 'Rena'. Context: The container ship 'Rena' grounded on the Astrolabe Reef off the coast of Tauranga during the Rugby World Cup. The linking of the black oil from the spill with the All Blacks was inevitable. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019233

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. A reporter invites the minister to respond to criticism over his handling of the oil spill. The Minister replies 'Inaction speaks louder than words.' Context: Concerns anger over what people have seen as a lack of communication about the salvage and clean-up operation of the Rena disaster and what seems like slowness and lack of concern on the part of the government and this minister in particular. On 5th October 2011 the container ship 'Rena' became stuck on the Astrolabe reef off the coast of Tauranga. It is spilling oil, threatening coastlines and killing seabirds. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019190

Description: Shows a map of New Zealand with the words, looking oily, 'A slick response' and a large question mark over the Bay of Plenty area which drips oil onto a penguin below. Context: A container ship, the 'Rena' ran aground on 5th October and is stuck on the Astrolabe Reef off the Bay of Plenty. It threatens to become an environmental disaster of huge proportions as oil spews into the sea. There is a similar cartoon at DCDL-0019170 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0019193

Description: Prime minister John Key and Finance Minister Bill English stand together on a ship nemed 'NZ Inc Planning' which has run aground on a reef. The PM tells Bill English to 'just smile and wave' and they might 'eventually float free...' Context: The Prime Minister John Key is developing a reputation for 'smiling and waving' as a response to serious problems.' On 5th October 2011 the container ship 'Rena' became stuck on the Astrolabe reef off the coast of Tauranga. It is spilling oil, threatening coastlines and killing seabirds. Authorities are racing to get the oil and the containers off the ship before it breaks up but the weather is frustrating efforts. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019256

Description: Prime Minister John Key peers out of a porthole in a ship named 'Credibility' at a huge crack in the hull and says 'Oops, we've taken a hit here.' Content: refers to the 'Rena' which is a foreign owned container ship that has run aground on Astrolabe Reef near Tauranga and is leaking oil. The government is being criticised for a slow response. The Environmental Defence Society said Prime Minister John Key has responded positively to its call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the grounding which has seen oil despoil coastline in the Bay of Plenty and parts of the East Cape. (Scoop 21 October 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019206

Description: The cartoon shows a man trying to help an oil-covered bird which bravely says 'Don't worry about me. How is Richie's foot?' Context: There had been speculation that Richie McCaw would be forced to withdraw from the tournament (Rugby World Cup) but the New Zealand coach, Graham Henry, said it was a case of managing the injury, which an operation in February had failed to cure. On 5th October 2011 the container ship 'Rena' became stuck on the Astrolabe reef off the coast of Tauranga. It is spilling oil, threatening coastlines and killing seabirds. Authorities are racing to get the oil and the containers off the ship before it breaks up but the weather is frustrating efforts. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019207

Description: The cartoon shows Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, sitting on a beach dressed as the Roman emperor Nero and playing the fiddle while in the background a ship founders. Context: Concerns anger over what people have seen as a lack of communication about the salvage and clean-up operation of the Rena disaster and what seems like slowness and lack of concern on the part of the government and this minister in particular. On 5th October 2011 the container ship 'Rena' became stuck on the Astrolabe reef off the coast of Tauranga. It is spilling oil, threatening coastlines and killing seabirds. Authorities are racing to get the oil and the containers off the ship before it breaks up but the weather is frustrating efforts. Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020167

Description: Cartoon shows a penguin dripping oil. Text reads 'The "Rena" clean-up, one hundred and dirty million dollars so far'. A second version has the text end 'and counting'. A third version has the penguin say 'Aah Bay of Plenty'. Context: An estimate made last month of the clean-up cost - which included scooping oil from Bay of Plenty beaches and saving oiled wildlife - was put at nearly $20 million since the container ship struck Astrolabe Reef on October 5 2011. Quantity: 3 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0019276

Description: The cartoon shows two seamen, one of them probably Prime Minister John Key, who stand on the deck of a container ship called 'Political Will'. One of them says 'We're just going to wait until the bad weather blows over'. Context: This is a reference to criticism of John Key's leadership during the crisis caused by the grounding of the container ship 'Rena' on the Astrolabe Reef off the coast of Tauranga. The ship was heavily laden with containers and was leaking oil. The cartoon suggests that there was a lack of 'political will' and the excuse was the 'world financial crisis'. This at the time that John Key wanted to concentrate on his election campaign - the elections to be held 26 November 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0014598

Description: The cartoon shows the astronomical figure of $28,000,000,000 which has the letters 'il' printed small after each zero, making them read 'oil, oil,oil' Text above reads 'BP's compensation bill(Ions). Refers to the $20 billion compensation that BP has to pay in damages and in the clean up after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).