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tivity of the mudflat environment and measures to reduce the impact of the development have been taken. This includes treatment of drilling mud on the island; solid material and drill cuttings lceing discharged onshore and water from the drilling mud being reused wherever possible.
Wytch Farm Gets Go-ahead to Expand Dorset County Council have granted BP planning permission to expand the Wytch Farm onshore oilfield in southern England despite bitter protests from environmentalists. The £265 million scheme will increase oil output to 60 000 bbl d -t by the end of 1989, a 10 fold rise in present production (see Mar. Pollut. Bull. 17, 4). This will necessitate the drilling of 46 new wells, 22 of them on Furzey Island. The oil will go by pipeline through the New Forest to Southampton water whilst LPG is shipped out by rail from the gathering station. The project is strongly opposed by the New Forest District Council and has still to be approved by the Department of the Environment.
Oil Spill Training Videos The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF) and the Commission of the European Communities, together with Videotel Marine International Ltd. have collaborated to produce a series of five 20 minute training videos. The series as a whole considers the fate and behaviour of oil spilled into the marine environment and the principal techniques for combating it under the following titles: • The Oil Spill • Containment and Recovery • The Use of Dispersants • Shore-line Clean-up • Planning and Operation. Every effort has been made by the makers to ensure that the information contained in the videos is up-todate and presented in an understandable and visually interesting manner. Live action from recent oil spills around the world as well as scenes obtained on location during oil spill exercises in tropical and temperate regions is interspersed by studio sequences that highlight key points. Each video is supported by a booklet containing additional detailed information as well as advice on where to obtain further relevant written material. English language versions of the videos are presently available and it is planned to produce other versions in a number of other languages, including French and Spanish. Further information may be obtained from: Videotel Marine International Ltd., Ramillies House, 1-2 RamiUies Street, London W1V 1DF, UK.
Pacific Oil Spills Workshop From 13-17 October 1986 a Pacific Regional Workshop on Contingency Planning and Oil Spill Response was held in Cairns, Australia. The Workshop, jointly sponsored by IMO, SPREP and USAID, was hosted by the Australian Federal Department of Transport. Twenty four participants from 12 Pacific and SE Asian countries attended and receive hands-on training in the deployment and use of a wide range of oil spill combat equipment. The Workshop gave special attention to the problems posed by oil spills in tropical environments and strategies available to minimize their impact in such areas. The need to develop national and regional contingency plans for oil spill response in the Pacific was emphasised by the Workshop.
Pacific Marine Parks and Reserves Traditional conservation knowledge and practices, which have attracted a lot of recent attention since Bob Johannes' Words of the Lagoon (University of California Press, 1981) were central to the discussions at the Third South Pacific Conference on National Parks and Reserves held in Apia, Westem Samoa, in mid-1985. The proceedings of the conference are now available in four volumes from the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, which organized the Conference in conjunction with the IUCN. The volumes include case studies and status reports from the various island nations, and strongly emphasize two points. The first is that traditional regulation of resource-use throug~h taboos and other social structures provides a basis for developing multiple use regimes and generating community support for coastal protection. The second is that adjacent land uses have a major impact on the marine environment, and must be considered in coastal management strategies. The Conference (the third and most comprehensive since 1975) provided evidence of a growing commitment in the Pacific to environmental management based on westem technical knowledge made compatible with island culture and practice. The reports are available from SPREP, South Pacific Commission, BP D5, Noumea, New Caledonia.
New Pacific Pollution Research Research and training institutions in the South Pacific region held their Third Consultative Meeting in Guam on 16-20 June 1986. (The previous meetings were in Fiji in 1983 and at Papua New Guinea in 1984). The meeting heard reports on previous regionally based research, and recommended new projects for funding until December 1988, when the Fourth Consultative Meeting will be held in New Caledonia. Among those recommended were coastal and lagoonal monitoring in Fiji, Guam, and French Polynesia, and comparative
tivity of the mudflat environment and measures to reduce the impact of the development have been taken. This includes treatment of drilling mud on the island; solid material and drill cuttings lceing discharged onshore and water from the drilling mud being reused wherever possible.
Wytch Farm Gets Go-ahead to Expand Dorset County Council have granted BP planning permission to expand the Wytch Farm onshore oilfield in southern England despite bitter protests from environmentalists. The £265 million scheme will increase oil output to 60 000 bbl d -t by the end of 1989, a 10 fold rise in present production (see Mar. Pollut. Bull. 17, 4). This will necessitate the drilling of 46 new wells, 22 of them on Furzey Island. The oil will go by pipeline through the New Forest to Southampton water whilst LPG is shipped out by rail from the gathering station. The project is strongly opposed by the New Forest District Council and has still to be approved by the Department of the Environment.
Oil Spill Training Videos The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF) and the Commission of the European Communities, together with Videotel Marine International Ltd. have collaborated to produce a series of five 20 minute training videos. The series as a whole considers the fate and behaviour of oil spilled into the marine environment and the principal techniques for combating it under the following titles: • The Oil Spill • Containment and Recovery • The Use of Dispersants • Shore-line Clean-up • Planning and Operation. Every effort has been made by the makers to ensure that the information contained in the videos is up-todate and presented in an understandable and visually interesting manner. Live action from recent oil spills around the world as well as scenes obtained on location during oil spill exercises in tropical and temperate regions is interspersed by studio sequences that highlight key points. Each video is supported by a booklet containing additional detailed information as well as advice on where to obtain further relevant written material. English language versions of the videos are presently available and it is planned to produce other versions in a number of other languages, including French and Spanish. Further information may be obtained from: Videotel Marine International Ltd., Ramillies House, 1-2 RamiUies Street, London W1V 1DF, UK.
Pacific Oil Spills Workshop From 13-17 October 1986 a Pacific Regional Workshop on Contingency Planning and Oil Spill Response was held in Cairns, Australia. The Workshop, jointly sponsored by IMO, SPREP and USAID, was hosted by the Australian Federal Department of Transport. Twenty four participants from 12 Pacific and SE Asian countries attended and receive hands-on training in the deployment and use of a wide range of oil spill combat equipment. The Workshop gave special attention to the problems posed by oil spills in tropical environments and strategies available to minimize their impact in such areas. The need to develop national and regional contingency plans for oil spill response in the Pacific was emphasised by the Workshop.
Pacific Marine Parks and Reserves Traditional conservation knowledge and practices, which have attracted a lot of recent attention since Bob Johannes' Words of the Lagoon (University of California Press, 1981) were central to the discussions at the Third South Pacific Conference on National Parks and Reserves held in Apia, Westem Samoa, in mid-1985. The proceedings of the conference are now available in four volumes from the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, which organized the Conference in conjunction with the IUCN. The volumes include case studies and status reports from the various island nations, and strongly emphasize two points. The first is that traditional regulation of resource-use throug~h taboos and other social structures provides a basis for developing multiple use regimes and generating community support for coastal protection. The second is that adjacent land uses have a major impact on the marine environment, and must be considered in coastal management strategies. The Conference (the third and most comprehensive since 1975) provided evidence of a growing commitment in the Pacific to environmental management based on westem technical knowledge made compatible with island culture and practice. The reports are available from SPREP, South Pacific Commission, BP D5, Noumea, New Caledonia.
New Pacific Pollution Research Research and training institutions in the South Pacific region held their Third Consultative Meeting in Guam on 16-20 June 1986. (The previous meetings were in Fiji in 1983 and at Papua New Guinea in 1984). The meeting heard reports on previous regionally based research, and recommended new projects for funding until December 1988, when the Fourth Consultative Meeting will be held in New Caledonia. Among those recommended were coastal and lagoonal monitoring in Fiji, Guam, and French Polynesia, and comparative