Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Resources and Energy, Senator Wong. Given the similarity in possible causes of the current disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the Montara oil spill in the Timor Sea, particularly the cementing process for the wells carried out by the same company, which is the second largest company carrying out this operation in Australia, and considering evidence in the US that 90 per cent of the oil spill contingency plans were the same and evidence to the Montara inquiry was that the Well Operations Management Plan was so generic as to be useless, have the government or their designated authorities completed safety checks on all the oil rigs drilling in Australian waters, and has the government completed reviews of the industry oil spill contingency plans in place to ensure their adequacy?