Oil pollution of the sea

Date: 1952-1972

From: New Zealand Shipowners' Federation: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-11367-079

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1964-1983

From: New Zealand Shipowners' Federation: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-11367-076

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014317

Description: The cartoon shows an oil-covered flamingo and alligator. A tourist guide in a boat tells his group of tourists that they are a 'flamingoil and an oilygator'. Refers to the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that started when a rig sank on 20th April 2010. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014321

Description: The cartoon shows a adult son who represents 'mankind' offering a mother's Day present of a can of 'oil slicks' to his mother who represents 'Mother Earth' and already holds gifts of greenhouse gases and carbon emissions. The two people stand up to their knees in oil. Refers to the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that started when a rig sank on 20th April 2010 and that continues to spew from a well that is proving difficult to block and that is threatening wild life, the fishing industry and a huge length of coastline. Refers also to global warming. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014296

Description: The cartoon shows God and several angels in heaven. One of the angels peers down through the clouds and reports to God that there is a frightful mess down in the Gulf of Mexico. God replies that he wouldn't have bothered making birds, fish and animals if he had known how man was going to turn out. Refers to the terrible oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is threatening to ruin huge stretches of coastline and is killing marine life. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0014278

Description: The eyes alone of two fish gleam out of the dark. They realise that it is either a solar eclipse or an oil spill. Text above rteads 'A fishy tale from the Gulf of Mexico'. Refers to the catastrophic oil leak which threatens wide areas of commercially and environmentally important shoreline in the southeastern United States. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0014489

Description: The cartoon shows a planning room in the BP offices. On the wall is a notice reading 'Oil spill planning Room'. A number of BP staff sit at desks working on plans and on the wall is a list of plans ranging from 'Plan A' to 'Plan G' and on to even more plans. One of the men comments that they will be sweating by the time they get to plan 26. Refers to the reapeated failed efforts to deal with both stopping the oil spilling and cleaning up the contaminated sea and coastline after the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on 20th April 2010. News today suggests that the well will not be properly stopped until August. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0014378

Description: A group of seagulls chat about having escaped the oil spill in Louisiana only to run into the ash from Iceland's volcano. A radio broadcasts the news about the volcanic ash. Refers to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is devastating a 60 mile length of coastline. Refers also to the ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014345

Description: The cartoon shows three men sitting at a desk at a Congress hearing about the oil spill In the Gulf of Mexico. Text above reads 'Gulf oil spill trio shine at Congress hearing..' The first man represents BP chief executive Tony Hayward, the second is Halliburton Chief Executive David J. Lesar and the third is Steven Newman who represents Transocean Ltd. Each man blames the others - the Halliburton CEO saying 'It was his fault'. Refers to the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that started when a rig sank on 20th April 2010 and that continues to spew from a well that is proving difficult to block and that is threatening wild life, the fishing industry and a huge length of coastline. BP is legally and financially responsible for the spill but Houston-based Halliburton Co., the giant energy services company, was responsible for cementing the drill into place below the water. The company acknowledged that it had completed the final cementing of the oil well and pipe just 20 hours before the blowout last week. More than two dozen class action lawsuits have been filed after the explosion against BP PLC the British company that leased the Deepwater Horizon rig, against the rig's owner, Transocean Ltd. and against Halliburton. A 2007 study by the U.S. Minerals Management Service found that cementing was the single most important factor in 18 of 39 well blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico over a 14-year period -- more than equipment malfunction. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014501

Description: Two American men trying to fish from a dinghy look at the oil rigs in the distance and comment that they remember them spudding in those wells and not believing they would find oil but now they have found too much. Refers to the catastrophic oil leak which threatens wide areas of commercially and environmentally important shoreline in the southeastern United States.. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0014450

Description: The cartoon shows an octopus covered in oil selling bottled sea water to oil-covered fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Refers to the catastrophic oil spill in the gulf of Mexico for which BP is responsible - engineers are trying to block the well which continues to gush oil. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014295

Description: American President Obama and his wife, Michelle, cook dinner together from a recipe called 'Gulf of Mexico shrimp stir-fry with BP sauce'. Barack Obama says that 'too much oil's the problem' and Michelle comments 'Oil and Greece'. Refers to the terrible oil spill for which BP is responsible in the Gulf of Mexico and also refers to the $1 trillion financial bail-out of Greece by the European Union. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026058

Description: The Politician claims that the protest by environmentalists in placing tape over their mouths to symbolise the government's attempts to silence the public is a victory for the government, since 'We've been trying to get them to do that for years'. On 5 September 2013 about 30 people taped over their mouths and braved a freezing Wellington day to demonstrate against the Government's plans to ban protesting against deep sea oil drilling. This was in response to the government's intention to restrict protests over this issue. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0026510

Description: A tourist sight-seeing boat approaches a pod of whales, or possibly dolphins, diving and in doing so, twisting their flukes to make an insulting gesture. The boat's commentator says 'Proving that dolphins & whales communicate, here they are giving their opinion to the offshore oil industry!' A spate of exploratory oil prospecting around New Zealand's coast led to fears that there could be envionmental damage, with whales and dolphins being especially affected. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0026707

Description: Cartoon in two frames. A warden asks a worker at an offshore oil drill what emergency procedures are in place. The worker answers 'Those ones there!' and points to the sign above 'Exit to helipad - flag responsibility and get the hell out!' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0026675

Description: A couple phone the government, represented by the Beehive, and say that 'We have just got a scratch and win card in the mail and it says we've won a worry-free future!', but they are worried in case it is a scam. The voice of the government replies that it is not a scam and that 'all you need do to collect your prize is to scratch the idea of protest...while we sell off your assets!' Refers to action taken by the government in 2013 making it illegal to interfere with any structure or ship in an offshore area that is to be used in mining, with an exclusion zone of 500 metres. By November 2013 Anadarko preparing to do exploratory drilling for oil in the Tasman Basin caused a resurgence in protests. Was a 'worry free future' and sale of assets worth the loss of citizens' right to protest? Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0029528

Description: Jim tells The Politician that the oil companies are complaining about "all the green tape they have to go through!" In reply to the question of the term 'green tape', it is "The same as red tape but on recycled paper". The reference is to the growing influence of Green Party policies on oil exploration regulation. 'Recycled paper' is another environmental and conservation initiative. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Sunday star times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026561

Description: Cartoon of two frames depicts an official in an orange overalls showing off an offshore oil drill head. He assure his audience not to panic about oil spills because there is a "process in place". The next frame shows a scuba diver holding a cork to plug any oil leaks. Refers to Greenpeace report outlining dangers of spills at two planned deep sea oil drilling locations off New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 19 Nov 2011

By: Marshall, Natalie Anne, 1974-

Reference: PADL-000624

Description: Photograph of two signs at Papamoa, Tauranga, near the beach, warning of pollution caused by oil leaking from the container ship 'Rena' which ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef on 5 October 2011. One is a health warning advising against fishing and the collection of shellfish. The other advises to use the beach with care. Taken by Natalie Marshall, 19 November 2011. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 digital photograph(s).