Fires, Floods, and an Oil Spill --- What a Year!

I got an email about an oil spill that occurred south of where I am....

Oil spill along Moreton Island, South-east Queensland,
AAP David Hunt
Up to 100,000 litres of heavy grade fuel oil is now smothering 
south-east Queensland's coast after the tanker, the MV Pacific 
Adventurer, was damaged on Tuesday in rough seas. The tanker's 31, 
six-metre cargo containers, containing around 600 tonnes of ammonium 
nitrate fertilizer, are still lost at sea somewhere off the coast of 
Stradbroke Island.